Matthew's practice is concerned with the spaces for art, be it the artwork that is situated within it, the physical environment that surrounds it, or the languages and pedagogy that is inherently linked to it. Matthew is interested in instigating a conversation about the politics of the art object verses the spectator in relation to artistic intention and creation.

In doing so Matthew is seeking to ask questions regarding new encounters with art; where they should take place and in what form; creating alternative realities that will hopefully seek to ask questions about how we can approach the production of the art object where it should be shown and in what forms

Matthew's videos are created via performative actions, sometimes his own and sometimes not. These actions function as a catalyst for displacing the categories mentioned above, and they also serve to manipulate the spectators and other artworks into becoming unwittingly complicit in the work.

Matthew's work opens up layers of possibilities within: the tragic space, the foreclose space and the potential space.




"......this dissolution of the self into the masses, grants the author the possibility of controlling the audience - whereby the viewer forfeits his secure external position, his aesthetic distance from the artwork, and thus becomes not just a participant but also an integral part of the artwork. In this way participatory art can be understood not only as a reduction, but also as an extension, of authorial power" (Groys, 2008).

Upcoming Exhibtions
Prologue (conversation cont...)  / Frankfurt / 2025  

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Prologue (to the conversation)/ Frankfurt
Essex Neck / Colchester
2020
Sluice Exchange / Lisbon
Forced Collaboration / Curated by Georgia Gendall
2019
Sharing Borders / Slade school of Art
2018
Sluice International / Berlin / 2018
2017
Folkestone Triennial/ Folkestone
2016
Vermont Studio Centre / Vermont USA
2015
Sluice Art Fair/ London
2014
Filmarmalade / Arnolfini
2013
Future Cities / Urban Encounters Symposium / Resonance FM / London
The Modern Language Experiment / Sluice Art Fair / London
mise-en-scène / Bow Arts Open Show 2013/ curated by Cullinan Richards/ London
This Fanciful Digression / CAN / Neuchatel, curated by Michelle Deignan’s and Carmen Billows
This Fanciful Digression / The Black Maria / London, curated by Michelle Deignan’s and Carmen Billows
2012
"30 Artists 30 Days" / Studio 1.1 / London
Outhere/ Round Chapel / London, curated by Imogen O'rorke and Nicky Wassell
Illusion of the Spectator / Angus-Hughes Gallery / London
Shit Show / Malgras Naudet / Manchester
2011
Madame Wang issue 2 / banner Repeater / London
Waiting for Suicidal Hares / curated by Jon Moscow / Chongqing, China
Sluice Art Fair / The Modern Language Experiment / London
Artists Books Weekend / The Modern Language Experiment @ The Mews / London
Schizm Magazine / Banner Repeater / London
Connection Point / Bow Arts Open Show 2011/ curated by Edward Lucie Smith and Max Presniel / London
2010
SURVILE-ANCE / X-RAY at the Perseverance / London
Deceit / The Modern Language Experiment / Hackney Wicked Festival, London
2009
LDN/BRU / Congres Station / BRXLBRAVO / Brussels
MA Degree show / Central St.Martins / London
Jamais Vu / Hackneywicked festival / London
V22 presents: The Sculpture Show / London
Catch My Drift / Central St.Martins Interim show / London
2008
WANTED / The Rag Factory / London
Brussels meets Brighton / Platform Centrale / Brighton
E8: The Heart of Hackney / Transition Gallery / London
2007
Urban Perception / ACT ART / London
2006
The Wormhole Salon / Whitechapel Art Gallery / London
2004
Eye of the Senses / Surface gallery / Nottingham
Urban Perception / Bath Fringe Festival / Bath
BE AWARE! / Candid Arts Trust / London
BE AWARE! There is C.C.T.V in operation / Hype Gallery / London

Residencies
Hospitalfield / 2024
Vermont Studio Centre / 2016
Madame Wang Review, Treignac project 2011
Treignac Project, 2010

Organisation / Groups
Treignac Project, France
Modern Language Experiment (partner)

Press / Publications
Matzine issue 10, 2012
Notes on Illusion of the Audience, 2012
Madame Wang issue 2, 2011
Schizm Magazine issue 3, 2011
 E8 Heart of hackney Publication, With forward by Charlie Porter, published by Transition gallery, 2007
Hackney Gazette, 2007
Guardian Guide, 2007
Time Out, 2007
Bloomberg TV, televised interview about Hype Gallery exhibitio, 2004

Talks / Lectures
Sharing Borders / Slade school of Art / 2019
Goldsmiths College, 2014
Plymouth Univserity, 2014
Sluice Art Fair, 2013
Bermondsey Project Space, 2013
University of Bedfordshire, 2011-2012
Made in Goldsmiths, 2011

Education
MA Fine Art / Central St. Martins / 2009
BA Fine Art / Derby University / 1997