When I have an idea, it tends to be one I can explore and play out over a series of works. I set simple rules for myself to get started and then gradually learn how to bend and break them. I am not wedded to particular materials or techniques; I tend to work the materials to hand—orthodox or otherwise.
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What has emerged over the years is that at root my work is autobiographical, but not in any obvious narrative sense. Interests in place, visual culture, and philosophy colour what I do, but I don’t preconceive a message, rather I allow meaning to develop as I work.
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I often include letterforms and words as a visual element and as a gateway into ideas that otherwise might never surface. They introduce a whole other layer of imaginative and connotative possibilities and this dimension is also a bridge, if one were really needed, to my creative writing.
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I studied art and design in the mid-70s, in the 80s worked in a national museum, and until 2014 was a university lecturer. Over the years my work has embraced painting, drawing, print, photography, collage, poetry, sound, performance, installation, film and video, all with a dedicated and playful openness to the possibilities of choice material.
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Geoffrey Mark Matthews
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