Joshua Di Mattina-Beven
Selected Work
WaterWorks
Tussle
Wrestleclub
Breakthroughs
Listing, Wishing
Up Your Ass
Ditty4Duo
About
CV
Joshua
Di Mattina-Beven
Joshua Di Mattina-Beven (b. 2002, Wellington) is an emerging artist and producer currently making art on unceded Boonwurrung/Bunurong lands in Naarm, Melbourne.
Josh works with performance and its limits, asking under what conditions audiences gather and how spectacle operates within (and without) the performance event. They centre the body and its transformations – holding an interest in tangling, misdirection and exhaustion. Josh often works collaboratively, with both objects and people, to emphasise the porosity between human and non-human worlds. Previous work has taken the form of wrestling clubs, restaged historical plays, fountains and solo monologues.
Joshua graduated from UNSW Art and Design in 2024 with a double degree in Fine Arts/Arts (Sculpture/Performance Studies), winning the Ross Steele Fine Art Prize for highest achievement in Fine Art. They have gone on to receive highly commended at the Gosford Emerging Prize and are currently completing their Fine Art Honours at Monash University Art and Design.