Matthew Thorne (.1993) is a South Australian filmmaker and artist. His work uses film, photography, and re-enactment to explore contemporary Australian identity, spirituality, masculinity, and relationships to land.

His films have received the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale, Documentary Australia Prize at Sydney Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at Melbourne International Film Festival, and nomination for Best Short Documentary at the International Documentary Association Awards.

He also received the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize (2023), Adelaide Film Festival & Samstag Gallery of Art Commission (2022), Australian Directors Guild Award for Music Video (2021), and was nominated for the Olive Cotton Photography Award (2023), National Portrait Prize, Australia (2021), and National Portrait Prize, UK (2020).

Recently, Matthew has had shows at Samstag Museum and Gallery, Adelaide (2024), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris (2024), PHOTO Festival, Melbourne (2024), Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (2023), Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria (2023), and Canberra Museum and Gallery with their Sidney Nolan collection (2022). His work has also been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (2021), National Portrait Gallery London (2020), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020).

He also contributed photography to Justin Kurzel’s films Ellis Park (2024) and True History of The Kelly Gang (2019), Nick Cave and the Badseed’s album Ghosteen (2019), and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017), and published two books Jingo was born in the slum (Jane & Jeremy, 2021), and For My Father (Palm*, 2018).

Matthew lives and works between Athens, Greece and Adelaide, Australia.