Creative Practice Highlights
​​Solo Exhibitions:

• Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, touring 3 Sites, UTAS | 2024
• ‘Symphonies’ Digital Animation, UTAS Library | 2023
• Lapsetime, Streets Alive 2016, Inveresk Precinct, Launceston, Tasmania | 2016
• A Collection of Allegorical Images, Music and Objects, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania | 2014
• Revelations of the Veil, Front Door Project Launch, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania | 2014
• Acid Reflux, Main Space, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2013-14
• I+E=Reality, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania | 2013
• The Many Great Expulsion of Mat Carey, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2013
• Picking Through the Spew, Jimmy's Street and Skate, Launceston, Tasmania | 2012
• Brain Vomit by Mat Carey, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania | 2012
• Mat Carey by Mat Carey (aka My Brain upon a Plane), Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2011
  
  

Group Exhibitions

• Seven, MONA Foma, Sawtooth ARI Gallery, Tasmania | 2018
• RACT Portrait Prize Finalists 2017, Long Gallery, Sawtooth ARI and Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania | 2017
• Food, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Makers Space, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania | 2017
• The Field, Space Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2016
• Micropsycho, Holographic Lounge Experience, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania | 2016
• Electrona 7054 Arts Festival, Various Locations, Hobart, Tasmania | 2015
• LGH Art Prize Finalists, LGH Atrium Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2014
• Tallest You'll Ever Be, Curated By Liam James, The Homestead, Hobart, Tasmania | 2014
• Tasmania Landscape, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2014
• Ombre Triangolari, Castello di Milazzo, Milazzo, Sicily, Italy | 2013
• The Gambit Exhibition, NEW Gallery, Newnham, Tasmania | 2013
• Brave Art Opening, Brave Gallery, Longford, Tasmania | 2012
• RACT Portraiture Prize Finalists Show, Launceston, Hobart, Devonport | 2012
• Other Matters, NEW Gallery, Newnham, Tasmania | 2012
• NOW Launceston, NEW Gallery, Newnham, Tasmania | 2012
• Academy Gallery Volunteers Show, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2012
• The G-Files, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2011
• Powerhouse Gallery Committee Show, Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2011
• Chapter 5: Gone Electric, Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2010
• Arts Alive Fundraiser and Farewell, Arts Alive, Launceston, Tasmania | 2010
• Chapter 3: A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation, Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania | 2010
• Chapter 1: Mat Carey and Liam James, Arts Alive, Launceston, Tasmania | 2009

​Awards, Grants, and Funding Received:

• Match Funding 2016, Australian Cultural Fund | 2016: $20,000 as part of a group application.
• Arts Tasmania International Travel Grant | 2013: $5,000, used to Visit Sicily and attend Artigiana Artist residency.
• University of Tasmania International Travel Scholarship | 2011: $5,000 for academic and artistic excellence.
  
  

Public Art, Notable Commissions and Works in Collections:

• City of Launceston Traffic Box Project (2021): Artist/Muralist for 6 pieces as a part of a community public art project, Pictures available on Request.
• TasWater Murals (2020): Worked in a team to executed four large-scale murals. Pictures available on request.
• Falls Festival Visual Arts (2018, 2017): Created and installed large-scale mural and lighting installations for this prominent Tasmanian music festival, working collaboratively with visual artist Paul Eggins.
• Artist for Ring Ring Second Birthday Mural, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston | 2017
• Base Varlet, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy | 2015
• Revelations of the Veil I-IV, Ten Days on the Island, Hobart, Tasmania | 2014
• The Reflection, Artigiana Residency Collection, Milazzo, Sicily, Italy | 2013
• Dante's Infernal Papercut, En Route Project, Junction Arts Festival, Launceston, Tasmania | 2012
  
  

Residencies

• Dereenacappera Artist Residency, County Cork, Irealand | 2022
• Artigiana Artist Residency, Milazzo, Sicily, Italy | 2013