Bio
Matthew Thorne (b.1993 Adelaide, South Australia) is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores notions of 'Australian', identity, belonging, and masculinity through film, photography, and reenactment. His latest short film Marungka Tjalatjunu (2023) made with Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch, received the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale (2023), and the Documentary Australia Prize at Sydney Film Festival (2023). His other short and mid-length films include The Sand That Ate The Sea (2020) a docunarrative film examining the remote South Australian opal mining community of Andamooka, and GAIB (2019) a short documentary essay film made with the community of Batu Keras, West Java. Other works include photography for Nick Cave and the Badseed’s album Ghosteen (2019), and Justin Kurzel’s film True History of The Kelly Gang (2019). He also contributed to Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017) as photographer and additional director, and worked with Glendyn Ivin to create the title sequence for his TV series Gallipoli (2015). Matthew has published two books, For My Father (2018) and Jingo was born in the slum (2021). His photos also accompany the Spanish language translation of Kenneth Cook's Wake In Fright (2021) by Sajalín editores. Recently Matthew’s work has been exhibited at GAG Projects / Greenaway Art Gallery (2023), the Canberra Museum and Gallery with their Sidney Nolan collection (2022), National Portrait Gallery of Australia (2021), National Portrait Gallery London (2020), National Museum of Australia (2020), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020), and screened at Berlinale (2023), Sydney Film Festival (2023), and Melbourne International Film Festival (2023). Matthew was also recipient of the Adelaide Film Festival & Samstag Gallery of Art Commission (2022), Australian Directors Guild Award / Music Video (2021), and nominated for the Olive Cotton Award (2023), National Portrait Prize, Australia (2021), and Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, UK (2020). Matthew currently lives and works between Athens, and Australia.