Matt Page
Matt Page is an artist based between Bristol and Bath, UK. His work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, and ephemeral installations often made in extensive series, a working method inspired by his close work with architects’ drawings.
From 2020–2024 he was the Deputy Director of Drawing Matter, an organisation dedicated to exploring the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. During this time he developed an interest in the innate seriality of architecture’s drawing languages (i.e. the use of plans, elevations or sections as methods to represent a single building); the predictive or projective quality of architectural drawing—making drawings for buildings; and the possibility for architects to have ‘many hands’ (e.g. sketches vs. technical drawing).
These interests are coupled in Page’s work with the use of limited and recurring formal vocabularies, which have included expanding and contracting shapes and squares and circles. These forms are at times employed as metaphors for dialectal states: life/death, individuality/collectivity, atomic/cosmic, feeling/numbness. His work is not a representation of these states in a specific sense, but rather it is the product and sustenance of his inquiries.
In his recent work, Page has been exploring the human will towards creativity through simple actions. These works cast the artist as ‘configurer’ who arranges preexisting things (forms, text) or creates intuitive objects and images that might have the potential to change the environments in which they are placed.
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