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Matthew Thorne (b.1993) is an Australian artist, filmmaker and photographer whose work bridges documentary and fiction worlds to create visually captivating, and emotionally evocative work.
His recent film Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in black) (2023), co-created with Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch, received the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale and the Documentary Australia Award at Sydney Film Festival. His follow up 60-minute moving image installation Extraction (2024), created with Kuyani/Kokatha woman Donna Waters, was commissioned by the Samstag Museum of Art and Creative Australia, and premiered at Adelaide Film Festival.
Matthew also contributed photography and additional direction to Justin Kurzel’s Ellis Park (2024) and Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant (2017), as well as photography to Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang (2019), and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ album Ghosteen (2019).
Recent exhibitions of his work include the Samstag Museum of Art (2024), PHOTO Festival Melbourne (2024), Chaillot National Theatre Paris (2024), Greenaway Art Gallery (2023), Lagos Photo Festival (2023), Canberra Museum and Gallery (2022), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020), with upcoming exhibitions at the Hamburg Triennial of Photography (2026), and Australian Embassy, Berlin (2026).
He has also received the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize (2023) and the Australian Directors Guild Award for Music Video (2021), and nominations for the Olive Cotton Award (2023), National Portrait Prize (2021), and Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize (2020).
Matthew currently lives and works between Athens, Greece and Adelaide, Australia. He is represented by GAGProjects / Greenaway Art Gallery.