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Matthew Varey began exhibiting at the age of eighteen before studying Fine Art at McMaster University. Varey exhibited regularly and curated exhibitions with Compound, culminating in a critically acclaimed exhibition entitled Genesis at the Hamilton Artist’s Inc in 1993. Varey became Coordinator of the Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, and joined environmental arts organisation On the Edge, featured in On The Edge, Artistic Visions Of A Shrinking Landscape.
The examination of environmental issues remained a primary focus when Varey moved to Greece in 1994. Sensitivity to national environmental causes lead to a sold out exhibition of large paintings, and a relationship with a Greek publisher and art advocate who has commissioned Varey to illustrate a number of publications. While in Europe Varey began the Modern Documentation Series, exhibited later at the Floating Gallery in Winnipeg and Latitude 53 Society of Artists in Edmonton, and written about in an essay by Cynthia Hammond entitled, Faraway things in the protective eye: Matthew Varey’s technology of representation.
Varey’s European experiences were the grounds of his being represented by the Toronto based Del Bello Gallery upon his return in 1995, and his exhibitions there featured huge and thickly textured paintings examining aspects of a shared and unconscious memory, juxtaposing humans and human achievements against elements of the natural world. By the age of 28, Varey had exhibited in 17 solo and two dozen group shows across three continents.
Varey’s concerned observations of the changing landscape combined with physical surfaces formed the greater part of his exhibited work until 1998, after which his interest shifted from the overt social narratives and textured surfaces to a refined celebration of the elemental beauty within naturally occurring systems. The amalgamation of colour photography and painting shaped the Blueprints of the Universe paintings, titled after a series of short stories he had penned in Greece
Varey joined Artcore Gallery in Toronto in 1999, and participated in a series of international fairs and exhibitions. Within two years Varey’s Blueprints of the Universe paintings and series of backlit photographs were exhibited at the Fondazione Bevelacqua la Massa in Venice, Art Cologne, Art Berlin, Art Miami, the Toronto International Art Fair, and with Buschlen Mowatt Gallery in Vancouver, Canada.
Varey began exhibiting with Transit Gallery in Hamilton in 2002, and with XEXE Gallery in Toronto in 2005. In 2004 Varey formed Iron Men, collaboration with Gary Dault and John Scott, exhibiting twice with Peak Gallery in Toronto. Recent acquisitions of Varey’s work have gone to public and private collections in Canada, the United States, Korea, England, Spain, Greece, Germany and Sweden.
Varey lives with his wife in Etobicoke, Canada, where he is finishing a novel exploring contemporary social and familial implications of Canadian veteran’s experience in World War Two.
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