About

Matt Chun is an artist, writer and picture book maker of Chinese and European family, currently dividing his time between Yuin Land and Wurundjeri Land.

Matt’s fifth picture book Pull it Down is out now with Slingshot Books. His previous title, in collaboration with South Sea/Darumbal writer and journalist Amy McQuire, is titled Day Break.

Matt is a founding and current co-editor of anti-imperialist print periodical The Sunday Paper. He is also one half of the collaborative art and history project UnMonumental, alongside fellow artist James Tylor. UnMonumental has collaborated with Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy, Art Gallery South Australia, Sydney Living Museums and Cordite Poetry Review.

Previously, Matt has created work for National Museum Australia, Meanjin Quarterly, Overland Literary Journal, Art Monthly Australasia, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, State Library Victoria, un Magazine, 關渡國際自然藝術季 Guandu International Art Festival and مخيم شاتيلا Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp.

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