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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tinitus Detritus

    Davenport and Rowe’s work considers the motorway as a homogenized European landscape; A disorientating environment where cultural feedback occurs. Gesturing towards picturesque ideals, Rowe searches for a sense of romance along the transit routes northern Europe. His re-appropriation of motorway detritus into sculptural assemblages of specular effect, allude to a ritualistic function. Working with similarly inane…

    August 18, 2017
    Concept, Exhibition
  • Migratory Hides 

    Newcastle Universty Charrette Week Workshops 650+ students, 13 studios, 5 days, 1 celebration… Over the week each group are challenged to create a structure that will function as an urban social observation hide. Each structure should to be constructed from a minimum of 70% recycled or salvaged materials echoing the anarchic shelters of migrant jungle…

    November 11, 2015
    Concept, Education & Engagement
  • Collapsing EU

    www.collapsing.eu is a the culmination of a 10 day cross border collaborative ICR residency by Alexis de Raphelis, Romain Baujard and Matt Rowe.All Image © Matt Rowe

    June 13, 2014
    Concept, Exhibition
  • 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
  • The uncanny Uncanny

    The common modern use of the term uncanny is derived from Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay ‘Das Unheimliche’, an unusual work for the psychoanalyst as it strays into both aesthetics and literature. However this piece acts as a nexus for many of his key concepts in psychoanalysis; where Oedipus meets ego psychology, and castration ties in with the…

    June 10, 2011
    Concept, Exhibition, Photography
  • Volcanos In The North

    Volcanos In The North for Aspex Gallery Make! Believe! Make! exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum.The exhibition was a joint exhibition venture between Aspex Gallery and Portsmouth City Museum, showcasing inventive uses of material and the process used within making contemporary craft.The show asked visitors to consider What drives us as humans to innovate, create and…

    February 13, 2011
    Concept, Exhibition, Film
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