about

Matthew (Matt) Siddall is a writer, emerging curator and arts worker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Matt has published writing for Caliper Journal, un Projects, SEVENTH Gallery, the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne and more. Matt completed an MA in Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne in 2020.

In 2018, he co-founded Cool Change Contemporary, a multi-gallery artist-run-initiative in Boorloo (Perth). Previously, Siddall was a co-director of Moana Project Space from 2017 until 2019, where he co-curated ‘It Is a Long Time Since This Moment’ as part of the Unhallowed Arts Festival. He co-curated ‘silences between ticks of a clock’, with Karl Halliday at George Paton Gallery, the University of Melbourne in February 2020.

Matt recently curated ‘i burnt a hole in my pocket to fix myself’ at M16 Artspace, Canberra, which opened in March 2022.

Matt lives and works on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Portrait by Karl Halliday.