Matt Bray

From official website:

"Matt Bray's abstracted figures draw upon personal feelings of alienation, using expressionist techniques to engage with the human body. Bray's paintings occupy and explore the tensions between subject and object, figuration and abstraction and allow the paint to exist on its own terms.

Being and Nothingness brings together key works to date, from dark forlorn heroes and expressive portraits to a more fragmented figure. Colourful sic-fi inspired canvases see the figure transformed and form the subject for Bray's immediate and impactful approach to painting"

[Allison Young]

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Extracts from the interpretation essay for the exhibition 'Being and Nothingness', written by eminent art historian Edward Lucie-Smith:

How is one to place the work of Matt Bray, a young painter who represents a new generation of artists now emerging here in Britain, who have grown weary of the conceptual dogma of the previous generation.

Since just past the middle of the 20th century, new groups of artists have regularly emerged here in Britain, in non-metropolitan settings often receiving scant justice from London-based critics. Though Matt Bray eschews a...

BA (Hons) Fine Art :: Ashford School of Art & Design :: 2007-2010
MA Fine Art :: University of Kent :: 2010-2012