Matthew Fern b. 1831

  • Artist (Carver)
Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract information of Australia's colonial cabinet-makers without trying to document individual workers. However, the individual style of journeyman wood-carvers makes it possible to trace their work through individual cabinet-making workshops.

Citations

  • 'Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD’.

  • (29 August 1891), 'The Queenslander, Brisbane, QLD.

  • (6 February 1896), 'The Brisbane Courier’, Brisbane, QLD, p. 6.

  • (23 August 1873), 'The Queenslander’, Brisbane, QLD.

  • Cooke, Glenn R. (ed.) (1997), 'Art off centre: Placing Queensland art’, Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD.

  • Stringer, Richard (1982), 'Fretwork pediments in Queensland’, University Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD.