Category / Art Direction / Exhibition / Film
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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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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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Dirty Net Curtains
Though a veil of decorative lace trim, Dirty Net Curtains begins to consider how ornamental embellishments of our domestic land scape, attempt tame our underlying savage desires.
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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…
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Punch The Lard
Adventures in lard! ‘Punch the lard’ is a re enactment of a Tall Tale collected in 2011. The tale speaks of this now mythical lard related custom which is alleged to have grown from the tedium of working in the supermarket industry, where young men pitch themselves against supper refined animal fat.
