about
I seek to translate the illusory ‘in-between’ spaces using film, literature and music as starting points to create projections of unknown territories that reside beyond our own temporal realities. These are realms that operate within their own internal logic, where psychological states and physical spaces become confused – where matter and time are in a state of reconfiguration. Like memory, what arises is transient, shifting, fragmented and changeable.
Matt Black
Education:
2014-2017 MA Drawing for Fine Art Practice, Oxford Brookes University
2011-2012 PGCE Secondary Art Education, Oxford Brookes University
2004-2007 BA (Hons) Illustration, Kingston University
1993-1994 Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Oxford Brookes University
Forthcoming & Ongoing Exhibitions:
2024 Oxfordshire Artweeks, Mill Street Arts, 66 Mill St, Eynsham, Witney OX29
2021 (ongoing) Lyall & Co Café, 11 High St, Eynsham, Witney, Oxford
Previous Exhibitions:
2019 Burford Festival Open Painting Competition, New Warwick Hall, Burford, curated by Sally Wyatt, Supported by the Brian Sinfield Gallery
2017 Before and After Lines, Boiler Room Gallery , The Jam Factory, Oxford, curated by Zoe Raffe
2017 The Past Is a Foreign Country, John Bowen Gallery, Malmesbury, curated by Joanna Billingham
2016 Aspect: Lines of Perception, West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton, curated by Matt Black
2015 Every Drawing Tells a Story, The Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford Brookes University, curated by Lucy Turner
2015 Re-inventing Research: The Messy Process, The Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford Brookes University, curated by Janice Howard
2010 The Book of Apertures Launch Event, The Betsy Trotwood, London, curated by Lazy Gramophone
2009 Love in the Sky, ICA, London, curated by Toni Castells/Love in the Sky
Selected Research/Writing:
MA Paper: Blurring the Line: Examining the Significance of Interference
Research Article: Memory and Place: Sketchbook reflection – JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students, Volume 1, Number 2, 1 October 2015, pp. 189-195(7)