Matt Huppatz is an Adelaide-based artist and thinker. Over the past decade, his practice has been inspired by sites that range from the domestic to the underground. Huppatz applies a queer eye to experience, often throwing light onto areas of dark or colourful transgression. He is especially curious about the stories that we tell ourselves and each other to create meaning in a changing world. This betrays an interest in the borders of language, and the sites and states where it begins to break down. Themes of contradiction, community, freedom, chaos and dissolution recur throughout his work.
Huppatz has shown in group and solo shows in Australia and abroad, including: In House, JamFactory, 2021; If the Future Is to Be Worth... Read more
About me
Matt Huppatz is an Adelaide-based artist and thinker. Over the past decade, his practice has been inspired by sites that range from the domestic to the underground. Huppatz applies a queer eye to experience, often throwing light onto areas of dark or colourful transgression. He is especially curious about the stories that we tell ourselves and each other to create meaning in a changing world. This betrays an interest in the borders of language, and the sites and states where it begins to break down. Themes of contradiction, community, freedom, chaos and dissolution recur throughout his work.
Huppatz has shown in group and solo shows in Australia and abroad, including: In House, JamFactory, 2021; If the Future Is to Be Worth Anything, ACE Open, 2020; High Society, GAGPROJECTS, 2019 (solo); Threads, GAGPROJECTS, 2018; Into My Arms, ACE Open, 2018; FELTcult at Hobiennale, Hobart, 2017; Soft Spot/Hard Feelings, Holy Rollers, 2017; and Queer Passages, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, 2017 (solo).
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) University of South Australia
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Dissident dissonance: forging a visual arts practice informed by twentieth-century avant-garde music and associated DIY movements and subcultures | Current |
| Looking up, looking down: Investigating how an eclectic approach to source material, methodology and methods can function within a contemporary painting practice that responds to memory, place, and history in Tarntanya/Adelaide. | Current |
| Improvisational creativity and collaborative play in virtual environments | Completed |
| The borders of making: an enquiry concerning steel sculpture, object-making, place and care | Completed |
| The eco-aware printmaking studio: developing safer and more accessible etching and intaglio techniques in Australia | Completed |