For Sale: Shitima boy 3 // 61 x 90 // Painting

Shitima boy 3 // 61 x 90 cm // Oil and Acyrlic thickly mixed and painted on recycled metal shelf. Matthew Small Education MA Illustration, Royal College of Art, 2000 BA Illustration, Westminster (First Class), 1998 Solo Exhibitions Seen and Heard, Blackall Studios, London 2013 That I May See, Black Rat Projects, London, 2010 Youngstarrs, Black Rat Press, London 2009 Small Faces , Sesame Gallery, London 2008 This is England, Leonard Street Gallery, London, 2007 Tricycle Arts Centre, Kilburn, 2005 Sesame, Islington, 2005 Lefevre Gallery, Mayfair, 2002 Selected Group Exhibitions Touch/Screen, James Freeman Gallery, 2014 Moniker Art Fair, London, 2013 The Radiant Ones, Hoxton Hotel, London, 2013 Black Pop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012 Banger Art, Lovebox London, 2012 Bear Market, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012 This is London, DIE Galerie, Seoul, Korea, 2010 Wunderkammer, Sesame Gallery, London 2010 Represent, Blackall Studios, London 2009 (curator) Mutate Britain, London, 2009 SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, 2009 Five Years, Sesame Gallery, 2008 SCOPE London, 2008 Hope In Life, Black Rat Press, 2008 Philips Auction House, 2008 Scream In High Definition, Scream Gallery, 2008 Big Issue Charity Show, Black Rat Press, 2008 " Regroup", Sesame Gallery, London 2008 Black Rat Print Show, Black Rat Press, London 2008 Sesame Salon, Sesame, London, 2007 White Noise, Black Rat Press, London 2007 Behind the Mask, Sesame, 2007 Underexposed, Novas Gallery, London, 2007 Eleven, Leonard Street Gallery, London, 2007 AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York, 2005 'Street Portraits', Sesame, London, 2004 Hunting Art Competition, Royal Academy of Art, 2002 BP Portrait award, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2001 Villiers David Art Prize, Christies, London, 2001 Lefevre Gallery, Mayfair, 2000 Awards Hunting Art Prize Nominee, UK, 2002 Villiers David Art Prize UK, 2001 BP Portrait Award Nominee, 2001 E-D-F Man Drawing Competition, Second Place, 2000 Matthew Small paints the invisible: the individuals of the city crowds. Using images lifted from anonymously filmed footage and working with recycled scrap metal, Matthew’s portraits have a sense of energy and power that compensates for how everyday people are usually overlooked in our flash-in-the-attention-span culture. In Touch/Screen Matthew presents a series of new three-dimensional works, where he has pushed his painting out onto multiple levels. Rough-cut and ragged, these faces force their way forward and fight for attention to make their presence felt. They are very much present in the here and now. (From Touch/Screen - February 2014) Central to Matthew’s approach is the belief that these people are valid and positive, and that it is the institutional British social system that leaves them marginalised and without prospects. He uses his artistic practice as a means of giving these people representation in contemporary art and culture (they are the most unlikely subjects for portraiture, a tradition which normally requires the sitter to be either rich or famous enough to warrant the painting). He also uses it as a route for them to divert their energies to something constructive – for the past few years he has been running art workshops for young people, and mounts exhibitions raising money for disadvantaged homeless kids in London. Process His social ideas are carried through in his process and materials. To source his images, Matthew ventures out into the street with a video camera and films his subjects, often anonymously, in their local environment. He then finds the materials in the same place as the people, choosing to work on anything that people throw away – doors from fridges or abandoned cars, old washing machines, combi-boilers and ovens, etc. Much of the paint he uses is also thrown away, which explains his unusual mixture of oil paint, household paint, gloss, etc. As a result the paintings, like his subjects, are a product of the urban environment, made up of the things that society throws away or disregards. His use of the paint also carried this through – much like the city, it is made up of a myriad of different colours, consistencies and materials, all binding together to create not just a face, but a distinct and three-dimensional personality.

Painting:Acrylic on Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 35.4 H x 2 D in

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