About

Matilda Slatter is an Australian artist from Borloo/Perth, working primarily with oil paint. Her practice explores animals, human connection, and psychological experience, often focusing on small moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed: a hand resting on fur, a shared glance, or the quiet presence of an animal.

Matilda's process begins with collected and observed imagery, including her own photographs, found images, and encounters with animals and their environments. Through cropping, texture, shifts in scale, and the materiality of paint, she slows these fleeting encounters and allows them to linger. She is interested in how oil paint can preserve not only an image, but a feeling, transforming ordinary experiences into something lasting.

Recent works consider animals in captivity and the psychological effects of confinement. Rather than illustrating these experinces directly, Matilda uses atmosphere, gesture, and fragmented imagery to explore ideas of repetition, isolation and unease. Painting becomes a way of slowing down these moments, giving otherwise ordinary images a heightened psychologial weight.

Moving across painting, photography, sculpture, and screen printing, Matildas practice holds space for the quiet and overlooked moments that so often define our experience of being alive.