Biography
Matt Page was born in Basingstoke in 1996. After studying History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA), he moved to South West England in 2019. Since 2023, he has been based in Bath. From 2020–2024, he was the Deputy Director of Drawing Matter, a charity dedicated to architectural education and exploring the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. He continues to work with Drawing Matter as a Senior Editor.
About
My practice has been heavily influenced by my close work with architectural drawings, in particular the handmade drawings of the mid-to-late twentieth century. I am interested in how architects use a language of codified drawing types to imagine and articulate ideas, and the inherent seriality of this language (i.e. the use of plans, elevations or sections as methods to represent a single building). Coupled with this, I am interested in the projective quality of architectural drawing—making drawings for buildings. Working outside the context of architecture, my recent work challenges this relationship, creating images of forms situated within fictional spaces that are stripped of any sense of materiality or scale.
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