Matthew Perceval

Biography

Matthew Perceval was born in Melbourne in 1945. He left Australia in 1962 for Europe to pursue a career in Art, where he lived and worked in London 1965-1967, the south of France 1967-1978 and Paris 1978-1981.

During this time he undertook numerous painting trips throughout Europe and North Africa. ln 1981 he returned to Australia and settled with his family in Newcastle. Matthew Perceval exhibited for the very first time at the Karoly Foundation in Vence in 1968.

Since then he has held over 30 Main exhibitions and has participated in many group shows including:

Salon d'Autumne and Salon de Mai-Grand Palais, Paris

Australian Artists of Fame and Promise, NSW House, London

Shifting Ground exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW

Nobbys Collection, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
to name but a few.

His work is represented in public-corporate and private collections in many parts of the world

Further Reading/Web sites

http://matthewperceval.com.au/

http://www.artnet.com/artists/matthew-perceval/past-auction-results

http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/matthew-perceval-2007

http://www.antheapolsonart.com.au/artist-works.php?artistID=181

http://www.aasd.com.au/index.cfm/artist/?concat=PercevalMatth