Hi my name is Heather Matthew. I am an artist, papermaker and writer.

Earth

Treading lightly on this earth

Collaborating with the earth to create marks with sand, mud and people’s feet

Art of Place | Pottsville mudmarks

Art of Place | Pottsville book

Art of Place | Pottsville frottage

Art of Place | Pottsville sand drawing

Art of Place | Pottsville mangrove drawing

I Will Not Turn Away (detail) 2024

I Will Not Turn Away 2024

Colonial Views 2024

Time(less) 2019

Buckle 2019

The 44 2019

Red Earth artist books 2019

Spinifex and Seagrass 2021

Blues 2018

Through Fences 2019

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) 2017

WALK THE EARTH

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) exhibitions | Bulgaria 2018 & Beaudesert, QLD 2017

Handmade banana paper

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) 2018

Installation for Responsive Paper, IAPMA congress - Paper: Conscience and Consciousness, Sofia, Bulgaria. May 2018.

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) 2017

Installation at Caring for Country exhibition, The Centre, Beaudesert, QLD. August 2017.

FLOOD MUD

Deluge exhibitions | Murwillumbah & Lismore, 2019

After the 2017 Flood

Blues

In 2017 my art studio was flooded after Cyclone Debbie ripped through northern NSW. My paper survived with mud marks of incredible beauty.

Blues celebrates nature’s mud palette where ink and silt bled together to create new stains and waterlines.

Blueprint for Change 2018

Blueprint for Change sums up the climatic change we are all undergoing as a planet. Nature will always have the upper hand. We have to change, adapt and find kind ways to nurture this earth, to work with it.

Acquired by the National Centre for Flood Research, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.