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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.…

    April 11, 2023
    Art Direction, Concept, Design & Dev, Photography, Portrait
  • 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…

    September 11, 2022
    Art Direction, Exhibition, Film
  • 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…

    August 11, 2020
    Art Direction, Concept, Film, Photography, Portrait
  • 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…

    November 1, 2019
    Art Direction, Education & Engagement, Exhibition, Film
  • 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…

    June 15, 2019
    Art Direction, Concept, Exhibition
  • 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…

    November 13, 2018
    Art Direction, Concept, Film, Photography
  • Passage

    https://vimeo.com/157286732 For Cheriton lights 2016 Matt Rowe has created a multi media Installation, that explores the eerie symbolism of friendly societies and overlooked thoroughfare’s of Cheriton.Using holographic projection and experimental photographic techniques, Matt Rowe has merged images and sounds , animating a hinterland at the margins of community. CHERITON LIGHT FESTIVAL 2016Strange Cargo will once again…
    April 11, 2016
    Art Direction, Exhibition, Photography, Virtual Production
  • Dark Harvest

    Dark Harvest Working on behalf of Strange Cargo for the Cheriton Lights Festival Matt Rowe has developed a series of installations, projections and sculptural assemblages that seek to reignite something of Cheriton’s rural past. Appearing in shop windows and on house fronts, the works infiltrate the town, transforming the locality with imagery from traditional folk…

    December 13, 2012
    Art Direction, Concept, Exhibition
  • Where Has all The Good Time Gone?

    Matt Rowe presents us with the faded spectacle and isolated amusements. He has manipulated the photo with washes of colour or digital additions. We see the highlighted edges of a ride, the lights of an amusement arcade, tempting us with echoes of a past glamour, with packed crowds and good times. The conscious choice of a memoir aesthetic suggests the images are from the past. With an aura of nostalgia the photographs not only present a longing for a prior era but further anticipate the changes yet to occur on the Rotunda site.

    August 15, 2007
    Art Direction, Concept, Exhibition
  • Club Shepway

    Centered in Folkestone Club Shepway is a group of emerging artists, writers and educators attempting to develop an active arena of cultural engagement and experimentation. Promoting contemporary art, music and its encompassing dialogue. Playing with local histories, hidden memories and current affairs Club Shepway is fundamentally concerned with the social and commercial development occurring in the area,…

    January 6, 2005
    Art Direction, Education & Engagement, Uncategorized
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