Matthew Spencer

Spencer is interested in how our world is represented to us through simulated images in the media and how these in turn form our comprehension of the world around us, basing his pieces on images from the media and internet. His works are cynical of utopian notions surrounding our relationship with the natural world, effectively combining medium, process and aesthetics as message. The MDF, household paint and painstakingly slow hand cutting process that he uses gives the work a raw abandoned aesthetic, creating scenes which depict gritty disenchanted visions of man-made structures and waste in woods and forests.

2008- 10, Master of Fine Art, Bath Spa University
2005-08, BA (hons) Fine Art, Bath Spa University

2015 UK/Raine Art Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London

2015 AAF Batersea, DegreeArt.com, London

2015 AAF Hampstead, DegreeArt.com, London

2015 AAF Singapore, DegreeArt.com, Singapore

2015 Painting the Future, Contemporary Collective, DegreeArt.com, London

2014 Edinburgh Art Fair, DegreeArt.com, Edinburgh

2014 AAF Batersea, DegreeArt.com, London

2014 Buy Art Fair, DegreeArt.com, Manchester

2014 AAF Bristol, DegreeArt.com, Bristol

2014 AAF Hampstead, DegreeArt.com

2014 AAF Singapore, Degreeart.com, Singapore

2014 Loud and Western, Degreeart.com, Fulham

2014 Between the lines, The Execution Room, Degreeart.com, London

2013 Edinburgh Art Fair, DegreeArt.com, Edinburgh

2013 Buy Art Fair, DegreeArt.com, Manchester

2013 AAF Batersea, DegreeArt.com, London

2013 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

2013 New Lights Art Prize, The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate

2013 New Lights, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk

2012 Portfolio, Marburae Art Gallery, Macclesfield

2012 The Signature Art Prize, DegreeArt, London

2012 Cork Street Open Exhibition, Mayfair, London

2012 The Great North Art Show, Ripon

2012 Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London

2012 NEO Art Prize, Gallery 32, Bolton

2012 Candi...