Mathew Lynn

Lives and works between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, NSW

Artist's CV

Mathew Lynn lives and works between Sydney and the Blue Mountains. For over twenty years he has been one of Australia’s best known and successful portrait artists. Whilst this continues, his practice has moved focus to contemporary figurative painting. 

Morphing from figurative to abstraction, Lynn's work is dynamic and engages the audience on a multiplicity of aesthetic and philosophical levels. Since obtaining his Master of Fine Art degree from the University of New South Wales in 1996, he has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize sixteen times, including this year with his portrait of actress and activist Maddy Madden. He has also been a finalist in the Wynne and Sulman Prizes. In 2018 he was a Doug Moran National Portrait Prize finalist. 

Lynn has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. In 2018, his portrait of Catherine Livingstone AO was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery Canberra as part of 20/20 Portraits. His portraits are included major collections across the country, including the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and Government House, Sydney.

Mathew Lynn's first exhibition at Nanda\Hobbs will be held in August 2019. This exhibition explores contemporary representations of the figure, the phenomenon of personhood, racial structures in society and the nature of phenomena as experienced in meditative states. 

\ Artworks

Coogee/Colony

2019 \ Oil on linen \ 183 x 122cm

SOLD

Appearance

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 122 x 92cm

Dream

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 122 x 168cm

Endless

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 77 x 61cm

Portal (60 Todman Avenue, Kensington)

2019 \ Oil on linen \ 183 x 138cm

Shower/Dancer

2019 \ Oil on linen \ 183 x 138cm

Silver Vibration

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 122 x 92cm

That Coogee Meditating Guy (Migisha)

2019 \ Oil on linen \ 183 x 122cm

The Silver Expanse

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 122 x 168cm

Vanish

2020 \ Oil on linen \ 77 x 61cm

Wasted

2021 \ Oil on board \ 12.7 x 22.86cm

\ News

News

Eight N\H artists selected in the 2022 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes

6 May 2022

We're thrilled to have eight artists represented this year with ten artworks selected across the three prizes—Jonathan Dalton, Blak Douglas, Kim Leutwyler, Mathew Lynn, James Powditch and Caroline Zilinksky, Lesley Rice and Paul Ryan.

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\ Exhibitions featuring Mathew Lynn

9 x 5"

Group Exhibition

22 January — 6 February 2021

Mathew Lynn

The Silver Expanse

20 August — 5 September 2020

Mathew Lynn

Coogee is Everywhere

15 August — 24 August 2019

Contact Us

to find out more about Mathew Lynn.

12 - 14 Meagher Street Chippendale, NSW 2008
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)