Project Description
About Matthew Burrows MBE
Matthew Burrows (born 1971) is a contemporary British painter and founder of Artist Support Pledge, a global movement in support of artists and makers. Matthew lives and works in the UK and is represented by Vigo Gallery London.
Matthew speaks of painting as a form of subsistence, dependent on and arising from the ground at his feet. Through the layering of colour and line, he creates images that invite mediation and a slow unraveling of space and experience. Matthew sees his practice as ‘one of dwelling and ritual, a process of mythologizing, of drawing meaning from the particularities of the environment and his movement in and through it’. His work explores the conditions by which we thrive and connect – individually, communally and cosmologically.
Matthew’s teaching experience includes: The National Gallery, London; Fellow in Fine Art at University of Chichester; University of Brighton, University of Central England, Birmingham; Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing University of Huddersfield, 1997-2003.#artistsupportpledge
Education:
An interview with Artist Support Pledge Founder, Matthew Burrows
By Richard Unwin (The Net Gallery)
Solo exhibitions include:
Beyond the Garden Wall Vigo Gallery London, London, 2017
Para-Dice Vigo Gallery, London, 2014
Cultic Twister Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, 2009
Anyone Here? Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, 2003
A Divine Comedy Gloucester Cathedral, touring to Gloucester City Art Gallery, Huddersfield City Art Gallery, 2000-2001.
Group exhibitions include:
Towards Night Towner Art Gallery Eastbourne 2017
Permeable Edge Otter Gallery Chichester 2016
WET AND DRY painting to the edges Observer Building, Hastings, with Gerard Hemsworth and Rose Wylie, 2015
London Twelve Prague City Museum 2012; Selektionseffekte Blain|Southern, Berlin, with Anton Henning, Rachel Howard, 2011
Foolish Romantics Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight, 2010
LayersSeongnam Arts Centre, Korea, 2010
John Moores 24 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2006
Awards and prizes include:
2016-19 Artist Fellow University of Chichester
1999-2000 Artist in Residence, Gloucester Cathedral
2006 John Moores 24, Prize Winner
2000-2001 Artist’s Residency, National Gallery, London