Matthew Thorne (b.1993 Adelaide, South Australia) is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores contemporary 'Australian' identity, spirituality, relationship to land, and masculinity through film, photography, and reenactment.

His latest short film Marungka Tjalatjunu (2023), a docufiction made with Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch about his story, received the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale, Documentary Australia Prize at Sydney Film Festival, and Best Short Documentary at Melbourne International Film Festival.

Other short and mid-length films include The Sand That Ate The Sea (2020) a docufictional film examining the remote South Australian opal mining community of Andamooka, and GAIB (2019) a short documentary essay film made with the community of Batu Keras, West Java.

Matthew has also photographed for Nick Cave and the Badseed’s album Ghosteen (2019), and Justin Kurzel’s film True History of The Kelly Gang (2019). He also contributed to Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017) as photographer and additional director, and worked with Glendyn Ivin to create the title sequence for his TV series Gallipoli (2015).

Recently Matthew’s work has been exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (2023), the Canberra Museum and Gallery with their Sidney Nolan collection (2022), National Portrait Gallery of Australia (2021), National Portrait Gallery London (2020), National Museum of Australia (2020), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020).

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

Matthew has published two books, For My Father (Palm*, 2018) and Jingo was born in the slum (Jane & Jeremy, 2021).

He currently lives and works between Athens, and Australia.