Matthew Thomas

Photographer | Film maker | Artist







Matthew Thomas (°1963, London, United Kingdom) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By choosing mainly formal solutions, Thomas creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His photos are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By applying abstraction, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.

His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.


His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The...

University Of Liverpool

Byam-Shaw School of Art, London

Exhibitions

MerseyBio 2012
Spektra
Dec ‘12 – Jan ‘13
Christmas Exhibition
Liverpool.

Wirral Spring Open – 2012
- Winner of the Kriterion award
with The Paradigm Effect
Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral

Roots and Wings
Brighton – 2011
Steel Shed in Bridgetown Barbados /
Aime Cesaire Cultural Park, Martinique – both 2012

MerseyBio (Liverpool)
Feb-April 2012
’Kaloseidos’ ‘Spektra’ ‘Emotion of Illusion’
Giclee Prints from the series.

Corke Gallery
Aigburth Road, Liverpool
October – January 2011 / 12
Kaloseidos + Spektra – giclee prints

FlowerGlow
Lightbox installation at The National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool
April 2011

Commission exhibition:
The Paradigm Effect | Timeslice
CultureLiverpool
Dance Photo Commission
@ The CUC, Liverpool
April 2011

Out Of The Pages
(with ‘Object Of Dreams’ magazine)
February 2011
At ViewTwo Gallery, Liverpool

Threshold Festival 2011
(at the CUC, Liverpool)
February
Emotion of Illusion
(in collaboration with ‘Objects of Dreams’ magazine)

Liverpool Design Festival
Kaloseidos
November 2010
- Vinyls Displayed on Brew Tea Bar and Mattas windows in Bold Street, Liverpool

36EXP
Musea, Manchester
Sept-Oct 2010 (in association with ILFORD PHOTO an...