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 the circulation of the artwork, the gallery, the audience and the institution and how these categories are altered when divorced from time and place.

Matthew's videos are created through the use of body worn surveillance cameras, often multiple in numbers and of a low quality. These cameras function as a catalyst for displacing the categories mentioned above, and they also serve to manipulate the audience 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.




"Perplications" are "cross-foldings" that introduce a creative distanation into the midsts of things........Perplications are thus what allows one to trace the diagonal lines in a fabric that cut accross it so as to fold it again.

"......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, in Frieling, Groys, Atkins, Manovich, 2008, p23).

Selected Group Exhibitions
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

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004
Urban Perception / Above the Ten Bells Pub / London
2002
BE AWARE! C.C.T.V in operation / Underbelly / London
Urban Monotony / Underbelly / London

Residencies
Madame Wang Review, Treignac project 2011
Treignac Project, 2010

Organisation / Groups
Member of the New International School (NIS) and the Treignac Project.
Founding member of the Modern Language Experiment

Press / Publications
2011 / Madame Wang issue 2
2011 / Schizm Magazine issue 3
 2007 / E8 Heart of hackney Publication, With forward by Charlie Porter, published by Transition gallery
2007 / Hackney Gazette
2007 / Guardian Guide
2007 / Time Out
2004 / Bloomberg TV, televised interview about Hype Gallery exhibition
2002 / Art Review
2002 / The Wharf Newspaper
2002 / Artist Newsletter

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