Matt Collier

Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh museum exhibition: 'ANDIAMO!'
Resistency at DRAWInternational, France (stipened award).
Museum exhibition at La Specola, anatomy & taxidermy museum, Florence.
Group exhibitions in London 2023.
Shortlisted for , very large proposal for my "sketchbook murals", from making murals through South America (& now London) travelling on land only from 2015 to 2017, creating 1 to 4 murals in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia and Argentina. Learning Spanish.. drawing & learning so more, of course!
I grew up in New Mexico & England -
generally nomadic, always comfortable to move on, I seek out lively discussion, I have learned to make work in transit (research, notes, compositions), with a thirst for literature, to read, to watch, to look; always propositional, always making mistakes.

Masters in Fine Art. Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. (Full Leverhulme scholarship & and Kinross to Florence Royal Scottish Academy).
BA (Hons) Fine Art. Wimbledon College of Art (UCL) London.
Foundation in Art and Design. Bournemouth Institute 2001.

'Momentous Times' & 'Human vs Nature' group exhibitions, London. 2023.
RSA, Edinburgh, exhibition: 'ANDIAMO!' featuring 20 artists/architects who span the full 40 years of the Kinross scholarship to Florence. Artwork of 2010 & a number of new larger works of 2020-21 to be exhibited side by side. Royal Scottish Academy.
DRAWInternational Residency, France (stipened award).
Murals whilst travelling South America on land 2015 to 2017 (Shortlisted for Bienalsur.org, very large proposal for my "sketchbook murals", a global event).
Solo shows : 'Precisely Wrong', North Wall Arts Centre South Parade, Oxford,
and in 'La Specola', Florence.
"'Precisely Wrong' originates from the world of medical and botanical imagery, utilising its visual authority to propose a few problematic or, fantastic alternatives. At times Matt's work is deceptively beautiful as excessive manipulations upon the body intend to liberate. Like the desire of the alchemist to rework fundamental forms into his own magical arrangement- for his own purposes: for control of his destiny. Attempts to unravel the ideals from which they are based, through explorations and exaggerations of various methods of drawing and painting." This exhibition brings together over two year...