Born 1976
Lives Melbourne
Untitled
2006
Ink on found paper
35x27cm
Courtesy Neon Parc
Matt Hinkley’s work lingers over the legacies of European Modernist typography of the mid- to late 20th century through the ‘ubiquitous democracy’ of materials such as pencils, old newspapers, scissors and glue. In early pieces such as Safe from Books & Botany (2003), a pencil drawing on Pantone paper, Hinkley revealed his interest in the collision of the handmade and the system, outlining wonky interconnected cubes and letterforms on a sheet of found paper. His more recent series ‘Untitled’ (2008), made from pages of broadsheet newspapers from which articles have been cut out, are both reflections of what George Orwell called the ‘absorbed hobbyist’ and minimal compositions of foolscap and absent squares and rectangles. (SL)
