Matthew Ling

I have exhibited in several U.K. cities and also in New York City & Miami, U.S.A.

I have a degree in Fine-Art photography from the University of Derby.

All photos are limited edition & printed by myself to order on high grade Hahnemuhle photo pearl paper and signed on the back. No refunds are given.

For bespoke sizes please feel free to contact me with your wishes.

Statement:

I work in the cityscape.

I find large public areas both mundane and fascinating. I try and photograph reflective materials within them to 'Remix' my surroundings. Windows and mirrored surfaces twist and layer architecture. Views are reversed or thrown out of perspective. I'm attempting to use my camera to re-appropriate the cityscape to make new visual realities.

I am trying to find aesthetic strangeness, views that anyone can see but rarely if ever stop to take in. People have too many other distractions and places to be or others to interact with. No time to look at something reflected in something else.

Some of my photographs are coloured by commercial advertising. Reducing it to colour alone, stripping the corporate messages we are bombarded with, I find useful and liberating. Occasionally words from advertising or civic signs ar...

University of Derby '05
Photography Ba (Hons) Degree

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

September 7th – 8th 2013 – Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, Derbyshire

July 25th – September 10th 2013 – ‘The Story of the creative’ exhibition, Jackson Ave, Long Island City, New York, U.S.A.

May 2013 – Derbyshire open arts exhibition at Artsmith Live, Monk St. Derby

February 2013– Sound installation for Nottingham ‘light night’ Event at Nottingham castle

Autumn/ winter 2012- Exhibition of Barcelona photography at Forman Street studios, Derby.