Matthew McAlpine is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who lives and works in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. McAlpine’s creative practice aims to explore the complexities and problems of colonial history and legacies, and the prevalence of environmental degradation in contemporary Australia. While McAlpine draws upon a range of disciplines to interrogate these ideas, his practice is brought together by its poetic and material sensibilities.

McAlpine graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 2016. Since graduating he has held eight solo exhibitions and exhibited in more than 20 group shows. In 2014 he was awarded the South Perth Emerging Art Prize and has been a finalist in several prestigious Art Prizes including the Churchie Emerging Art Prize and the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. He has been awarded residencies at the Fremantle Art Centre, Goolugatup Heathcote and Edith Cowan University.

You can find McAlpine's work at Kolbusz Space.

Photographs by Matthew Stanton