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.
In early 2025 he set up Artists’ Drawings Magazine.
Exhibitions
2025 / Pedestal, Gallery 19a, Brighton
2024 / All In, Fresh Salad (online)
2022 / Matt Page: Recent Drawings and Sculpture, Shatwell Farm
2021 / Matt Page & Jacob Shaw, Wincanton, Somerset
Curatorial Projects
2021 / Sounds and Shapes, Matchett & Page
2020 / Buildings, Matchett & Page
2020 / A Crowded Room, Matchett & Page
2019 / Traumnovelle: Picnic in the Aftermath, Shatwell Farm
2019 / Private Views: The Collection and its Site, Shatwell Farm
2019 / Dido and Aeneas, Shatwell Farm
Writing + Interviews
2025 / ‘E.W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West’, Drawing Matter2025 / ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay’, Drawing Matter
2024 / ‘Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings: 10 notes in place of a description’ (Text for Open Studios) READ
2024 / ‘Translations between Drawings and Models’, Drawing Matter
2024 / ‘Sphere and Cube: Metaphorical Forms’ Folly Journal
2024 / ‘Begin Again, Fail Better: Pichler and Hollein’, Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture (Zurich: Park Books, 2024).
2023 / ‘Fraser Stables: Remembering Architecture’, Drawing Matter
2023 / ‘Quantum Collecting’ in Drawing in Architecture Education and Research, edited by Heike Biechteler, Dieter Dietz, Johannes Käferstein, Jonathan Sergison (Zurich: Park Books, 2023) (Co-author with Niall Hobhouse)
2022 / ‘Alberto Cruz: Observation, Act, Form’, Drawing Matter
2021 / ‘The Drawing Matters’, Autoportret, no. 75
2021 / ‘Ramble’, Folly Book 2
2021 / ‘Invitations’, BUM Editions, no. 4: Hone
2020 / ‘Where Words Fail’, Drawing Matter (Co-authored with Cyril Babeev)
2020 / ‘Behind the Walls’, Drawing Matter
2019 / ‘Playing Games with the Oldest Book’ in Architecture Through Drawing, edited by Helen Thomas, Desley Luscombe and Niall Hobhouse (Lund Humpries: London, 2019)
Editorial Projects
2025– / Artists’ Drawings Magazine
2024 / Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings, Drawing Matter Journal – Architecture and Representation, no. 2 (editorial team)
2023 / The Geological Imagination, Drawing Matter Journal – Architecture and Representation, no. 1 (editorial team)
2022 /Deanna Petherbridge, Drawing as Metaphor (Somerset: Drawing Matter, 2022). (Editor, print and online series)
2021 / ‘Pan Scroll Zoom’, Drawing Matter Extracts 3, edited by Fabrizio Gallanti (Somerset: Drawing Matter, 2021) (Editor, commissioning and production; print and online series)
2021 / ‘Women Writing Architecture’, Drawing Matter Extracts 2, edited by Helen Thomas (Somerset: Drawing Matter, 2021) (Editor, commissioning and production)
2021 / ‘Where to Begin?’, Drawing Matter Extracts, no. 1 (3 vols) (Somerset: Drawing Matter, 2020) (Co-editor with Niall Hobhouse).
2018 / See: Two [The Courtauldian Issue 18] (March 2018) (Editor-in-chief)
2017 / See: One [The Courtauldian Issue 17] (December 2017) (Editor-in-chief)
Talks + Workshops
2023 / ‘Drawing on Architects’ Drawings’, Eye to Pencil, London (Workshop responding to Louis Kahn’s sketch for the Weiss House mural (a collaboration between the architect and Anne Tyng))
2023 / ‘Reflections on the Drawing Matter Collection’, Eye to Pencil, London
2020 / ‘Drawing Matter: Archiving a Collection/Collecting an Archive’, SAHGB Annual Symposium, September 2020 (Symposium paper)
2019 / ‘Some Roles of Drawing’, The Courtauld Institute of Art (Organiser of panel discussion between Tony Fretton, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Niall Hobhouse and Robin Schuldenfrei.)
Educational workshops with art, architecture and design, tutors and students from across the UK and internationally, including students from: The Bartlett School of Architecture, Central Saint Martins, Coventry University, The Welsh School of Architecture, The Architectural Association, University of the West of England, Arts University Bournemouth, Yale School of Architecture, Dartington Arts School, Accademia di Mendrisio, University of Plymouth, Newcastle University, New York University, Bath Spa University, Falmouth University, Loughborough University, The London School of Architecture. Plus, the annual Drawing Matter Summer School, organised in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth Somerset and Kingston School of Art (participation from 2019–).