Matthew Perceval was born in Melbourne in 1945. He left Australia in 1962 for Europe to pursue a career in art. He lived and worked in the South of France from 1967-78 and in Paris from 1979-81. During this period he painted throughout Europe, England and North Africa. In 1981 he returned to Australia and settled in Newcastle with his family in 1982. Since that time he has painted and exhibited extensively throughout Australia.
	1989     Travelled to Rajasthan - India with fellow painter Satish Kumar Sharma. Painting trip to far north Queensland   1990     Newcastle earthquake tryptich   1990/91     Fish Series   1993     Series of paintings: ELEGIES Ceramic platters produced at Newcastle University with Carolan Laffan and with Sean Nicholson at his studio   1993/94     Assisting Kim Goodacre on making a 30 minute documentary "The Painter's Moon" shown on SBS Television February 95   1994     Rebuilding of house and studio after the Newcastle Earthquake   1995     Second painting trip to remote parts of The Kimberley documented by Kim Goodacre   1997     Industrial landscape paintings, Newcastle   1997/98     Kimberley Landscape Series   1995     Sydney city night paintings
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