About:

Matthew Walton (b. 1996) is an emerging artist based in Toronto. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Applied Arts in Animation from Sheridan College. Through a mixed-media practice that combines drawing and painting, Walton merges his love of the human form with a distinct graphic sensibility. This marriage births bold, figurative compositions that boast striking textural contrast—a visual tension between softness and the hardness of an unforgiving world.

Walton’s work highlights the quiet charm of everyday queerness, reimagining mundane moments through a vibrant technicolour lens. These vignettes invite viewers into intimate, relatable scenes that blur the line between public and private space. It is within this liminal realm that Walton’s camp and Cubist-coded figures live—uninhibited. Drawing from his background in animation, Walton uses body language as a narrative device. By embracing tell-tale gestures and mannerisms once repressed, his work celebrates the freedom of authentic self-expression.