Matthew is a member of the British Racing Green collective
Matthew does not refer to himself in the 3rd person. The materials I use are mass produced, simple, familiar, cheap and readily available. Recently I have been using brown parcel tape. When I use materials I like to exploit their materiality, to use what they give me and let it guide the work. I like the viewer to be able to relate to the material, as I have during making, and to know its properties and limits thus giving an entry point into the work. I do not wish to fool or ‘outsmart’ the viewer with materials or process and I want the work to be accessible. I like to take materials and objects that we may come across and use every day, such as the tape, and use it in a way that brings new life and interest to it. I hope the work uses the material in a way that the viewer may never have envisaged The works in brown tape play with the ideas of fragility, tension, instancy and their temporal nature. Each work is made for a specific time and/or place and is destroyed afterwards. The works are made solely from the chosen material; the brown tape forms the structure of the work, holds the work together and of course becomes its main aesthetic. EDUCATION 2006 – 2009 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Cardiff School of Art and Design EXHIBITIONS 2009 Canton sculpture studio (Chapter) temporary show (critiqued by Phyllida Barlow)
Below is Matthew's entry to our 100:T-shirts project 76
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