Matt Bromhead is included in Quintet, a group exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
The cross-generational group of mid-career artists who grew up or live in southern Sydney have diverse practices which include painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, drawing, printmaking and paper cuts. Hazelhurst Arts Centre has a long history of supporting artists from the region and each artist has been commissioned to develop significant new bodies of work for these exhibitions which come at pivotal points in their careers.
Each artist has produced unique and personal works, yet common threads can be drawn across the five exhibitions. For Bromhead, his domestic duties around caring for his young family shapes his current studio practice, where works are developed in short bursts. The physical nature of each artist’s chosen medium – whether it be paper, fabric, paint or clay – also informs their works, which employ detailed, repeated and painstaking techniques such as cutting, layering, carving, moulding and stitching.
