Matthew Wilson’s work often manifests as an examination of the human compulsion towards a repetitive process. His background in printmaking has led to the creation of work that, at its core, emphasises a state of inertia; a wanting to persist in a state of motion or stillness, until disrupted by an external force. Working with sculpture, print, sound, writing, and performance, his recent works have addressed matters such as interaction and habit within a landscape, memorialisation, human mechanics, and the deconstruction of matter; often drawing on the notion of a cyclical process that combines repetition and subsequent disruption to reach a conclusion.
Matthew Wilson (b. 1991) is currently based in Edinburgh. He recently graduated from the Royal College of Art (2018), and previously studied Fine Art at the University of Dundee (2013). He was selected for the 2014 RSA New Contemporaries exhibition, where he was awarded the Walter Scott Global Investment Award and The Art in Healthcare Purchase Prize. He is a recent recipient of the Dewar Award (2016, 2017), was shortlisted for the Stanley Picker Tutorship and the Almacantar Studio Award (both 2018), and was a selected artist for a six week residency at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Recent exhibitions include: Hold Your Horses, Hold them and Never let Them Go, CGP, London; The Sky has no Surface, Berwick Fringe, Berwick-upon Tweed; Gone Fishing, DOK Space, Edinburgh; The Same Tendency, Summerhall, Edinburgh; and Utopia, Upper Church Gallery, Edinburgh.
E-mail - mattjwilson91@gmail.com