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Ghillies
Rowe’s Wildmen costumes, also known as Ghillie suits, are a unique representation of the carnivalesque in contemporary visual culture. They subvert traditional norms and hierarchies by using accumulated domestic materials that are fading from significance to create decorative wearable landmasses. This emphasis on physicality and the body reflects the carnivalesque’s celebration of diversity and complexity.…
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Go Go Whippet Education
Go Go Whippet provides bespoke workshops for schools, galleries and museums as well as projects in the public realm . Either working to a brief or self directed Matt Rowe’s background in contemporary art craft and image making ensures that specialist skill sets are tailored specifically to your project. From craft orientated making and doing to…
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Hulked
This film is part of a pilot creative heritage project about the Thames sailing barges called ‘Hulked’. The film is shot around and within the hulk of the Surrey barge which was left to rot on Glass Bottle Beach in Lower Halstow, Kent UK. The piece was conceived by Anna Braithwaite who also performed in…
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Rope Cycle
‘Rope Cycle’ is series of vignettes produced in collaboration with Anna Braithwaite whilst working as composer-in-residence at Chatham Historic Dockyard. The costume and movement development grew from a body of research and engagement collected around the endless spaces and huge machinery of the Victorian Ropery. The central character in Anna Braithwaite perfomance highlights role sailors…
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Fortopia
During his year as Artist in Residence at Fort Burgoyne, for the Pioneering Places Year of Engagement, Matt Rowe developed a series of still and moving images that echo the atmosphere of the site. He has investigated aspects of the fort’s heritage by considering not only its role as a site of civil defence and military…
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John Barleycorn Must Die
Sat 15thJune-Sun 25 Aug 2019 open Mon-Sat 9am-5pm,Sun 10am-4pm www.newbreweryarts.org.uk The exhibition brings together a collection of work by artist Matt Rowe and accompanying research materials gathered in collaboration with curator Laura Mansfield. The artefacts and artworks reflect upon the story and tradition of John Barleycorn. Appearing in a 17thCentury English folk song of the same…
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Grit in the Oyster
Grit in the Oyster is a body of work by Matt Rowe that represents the often overlooked rituals and aesthetics of carnivalesque culture in the tradi- tional British seaside resort, with a particular focus on the coastal town of Folkestone. For Rowe, this work reflects the town as a cultural space wherethe conventions and boundaries…
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Video Art Program[The 58th Program] Matt Rowe
October 24-, 2017-January 14, 2018Bad Omen, 2011, color, sound, 3min.58sec.Archipelago Ghillie, 2016, color, sound, 1min.32sec. The Light and Dark Lurking in the Commonplace As the title suggests, an ominous atmosphere pervades Bad Omen from beginning to end. In the first scene, an enigmatic figure covered with some sort of black material stands at the entrance of a…
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Have a Nice Day
Matt Rowe’s latest installation for the Allotment project space transforms 9 Love Lane, Margate, into a site of spectral collapse. A Fluid mass of car lot bunting, seaside windmills and gold lamé hang beneath a reclaimed pub parasol.Rowe’s installation echoes the onslaught of winter and the annual demise of the English seaside resort.
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Ghost Tide
The Ghost TideRob La Frenais, 2018 “You never know what the river will bring on the next tide. Nor do you know what secrets it holds, never to be revealed again.” That was the possibly fictional character of ‘Maeve’ of the ‘Redriff Society of Thames Sifters’ as described by Portals of London – a blog which made…
