🡦 Market Full of Dreams [On-going]
I’ve reimagined my childhood home, a fruit and vegetable shop nestled in a vibrant immigrant community in suburban Sydney. Through memory exploration, conversations, and photo stitching, this project reflects my intricate connection to space and time as a first-generation Australian and the intersection between our commercial and domestic life.
Market Full of Dreams Billboard [2023]
The pre-cursor for a Market Full of Dreams. The project humbly sits in a developing site, its appearance deceives the viewer by selling a future prospect, the Australian dream and lifestyle. However, inside the suite is an excavation into my past. The details and architectural representation stitches together my family’s heritage, traditions and social conditions to create a structured and detailed environment in a chaotic world reflecting a unique, yet common story of a child growing up in the psyche of ethnic Australia.
🡦 The Talking Wall [2021]
A site-specific installation, design and built by Matthew in collaboration with the Collingwood Neighbourhood House (non-for-profit organisation). The installation was exhibited in the basement of the new Collingwood Yards precinct, Melbourne, VIC.
🡦 Anatomy of Rooms [2022]
This project reimagines 1960s Australian housing estate floor plans—originally designed for a typical family of four—by reinterpreting them through the lens of today’s diverse family structures. The blueprints highlight how immigrant and refugee families occupy the structural constructs and have become the architects of their own environments. Set in an underground carpark beneath these estates, the project challenges outdated notions of what "Australian" families look like.