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Matthew Hindley is a South African artist born in Cape Town 1974, who lives and works in Cape Town. Hindley has refused to be pinned down to any one mode of production. After graduating with the Michaelis Prize from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town in 2002, Hindley has explored sculpture, drawing, video and physical computing and more recently has focussed on painting.

Artist Develpment

Career Overview

In 1996, the fourth year of his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Hindley abandoned his studies owing to a conflict of interest - a conflict only resolved in 2002 when Hindley returned to the University of Cape Town to complete his BA FA.

In 2001, a video project that Hindley had been working on - Allow Me to Observe - had its world premier at the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam. The work consisted of a Galvanic Skin Response monitor built into a microcircuit board, digital video camera, spy camera and microphone, microcomputer programmed with C++, ECG pads, bag, and a sweatband. The POV camera would only record when the wearer became excited, or experienced extreme emotional states. The premier of this project launched Hindley back onto the art scene; the work has remained influential as a thematic that predecessor to later ideas in his paintings.

Allow Me to Observe and another similarly technological project Infra Red were exhibited both locally and internationally in 2003, including at the Michaelis Gallery in Cape Town, in Johannesburg and Berlin. The work was a nominee for MTN New Contemporaries which showed at Museumafrica, Johannesburg. In the same year Hindley won a permanent public art installation competition at the Iziko South African National Gallery for the proposal Speak Naturally and Continuously (SNAC).

In 2006, Hindley had a painting solo at 34LONG in Cape Town, a show which was very successful and favourably received. The following year, Hindley was invited to live in Berlin for three months by German collectors he had met in 2005 and who had become followers of his paintings and drawings. In those three months, Hindley worked on painting towards a private vernissage. Hindley returned to Berlin for some months in 2008 in order to continue painting and researching.

Berlin had an impact on Hindley's artistic practice in that he returned, almost exclusively, to figurative painting in oils on canvas. The scenes depicted take on a cinematographic reality. Characters are recognisable from painting to painting, brought to life on his large-format work-surfaces to face different enigmas in each composition. Hindley’s paintings are simultaneously unsettling and comforting – disturbing in the sense that his characters reveal a nuanced darkness and reassuring for the fact that it is a very human darkness to which each of us can relate.

In 2009 Hindley began being exclusively represented by iArt Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.

Recent Developments

In 2011 he had a solo show at iArt titled: "An Everlasting once". Also in 2011 he showed in Basel on the Solo Projects art fair. His collaboration video work with Zwelethu Mthetha has been selected for FIVAC, Festival Internacional de videoarte deCamaguey 2011.

Gallery

The Waking Spell, Oil on Linen, 2011, 2m x 2m

The Waking Spell, Oil on Linen, 2011, 2m x 2m
The Real Inspector, Oil on Linen, 200 x 200cm, 2011
An Everlasting Once, Oil on Linen, 300 x 200cm, 2011
Kill the Lights!, Oil on Canvas, 300 x 200cm, 2009

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland / An Everlasting once, iArt Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Private Vernissage, Berlin, Germany, with Kromschroeder & Pfannenschmidt

2006 Before My Time, 34LONG, Cape Town

2005 Speak Naturally & Continuously, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town / Abolute Chop, ( Art-Directed by Zwelethu Mthethwa ), Mzoli’s Butchery and Grill, Gugulethu

2004 Untitled, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn / Surrender, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town

2003 Infra-Red, The Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

External links

General Information and Images

Website of Matthew Hindley's primary gallery, iArt Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Artbio, an overview of Hindley's work by Andrew Lamprecht
Matthew Hindley: Artist on the Cusp, an interview
Matthew Hindley at the Cold Room, a review

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-'''Matthew Hindley''' is a [[South African]] artist born in [[Cape Town]] 1974,  who lives and works in [[Cape Town]]. Hindley has refused to be pinned down to any one [[mode of production]]. After graduating with the Michaelis Prize from the [[Michaelis School of Fine Art]] in [[Cape Town]] in 2002, Hindley has practised the idea of the [[gesamtkunstwerk]]  – exploring [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[drawing]], video and [[physical computing]].
+'''Matthew Hindley''' is a [[South African]] artist born in [[Cape Town]] 1974,  who lives and works in [[Cape Town]]. Hindley has refused to be pinned down to any one [[mode of production]]. After graduating with the Michaelis Prize from the [[Michaelis School of Fine Art]] in [[Cape Town]] in 2002, Hindley has explored  [[sculpture]], [[drawing]], video and [[physical computing]] and more recently has focussed on [[painting]].
+==Artist Develpment==
-=== Artistic Development ===
+=== Career Overview ===
 In 1996, the fourth year of his [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] degree, Hindley abandoned his studies owing to a [[conflict of interest]] - a conflict only resolved in 2002 when Hindley returned to the [[University of Cape Town]] to complete his BA FA.
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 [[Berlin]] had an impact on Hindley's artistic practice in that he returned, almost exclusively, to [[Figurative art|figurative painting]] in oils on canvas. The scenes depicted take on a cinematographic reality. Characters are recognisable from painting to painting, brought to life on his large-format work-surfaces to face different enigmas in each composition. Hindley’s paintings are simultaneously unsettling and comforting – disturbing in the sense that his characters reveal a nuanced darkness and reassuring for the fact that it is a very human darkness to which each of us can relate.
 In 2009 Hindley began being exclusively represented by '''iArt Gallery''' in [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]].
+=== Recent Developments ===
 In 2011 he had a solo show at iArt titled: "An Everlasting once". Also in 2011 he showed in Basel on the '''Solo Projects''' art fair. His collaboration video work with Zwelethu Mthetha has been selected for '''FIVAC, Festival Internacional de videoarte deCamaguey''' 2011.