Following training in Industrial design and Architecture in 1990 Matthew Butler was invited to the UK by designer Tom Dixon to manage his cutting edge London design studio and workshop.

After several years working and travelling through Europe Butler returned to Australia and founded Bluesquare specialising in design focused furniture for clients that include the Sydney Olympic Games, SBS Movie Show and Marmara Hotel New York.

Butler has also specialised in design education, teaching at Melbourne’s Swinburne University, RMIT University, QUT University in Brisbane and Columbus University in Ohio USA.

Relocating to a remote coastal town in Northern NSW and a passion for overseas travel to other cultures gave Butler inspiration to create design company Zaishu. Along with fellow designer Helen Punton Zaishu has created a welcome bridge between the worlds of design and art using environmental and socially responsible practices to record visual art on a simple slot together wood veneer seat. In the short space of 3 years Zaishu has worked with hundreds of artists and galleries around the world including South America, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Germany and throughout Australia.

Butler describes himself as a ‘tinkerer’ and finds time between managing 2 design companies to work on art installations, music and photographic projects.