Working across printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and sound, Matthew Wilson’s work uses process-heavy print media techniques to explore themes of repetition, sampling and copying, and the nature of imagery. This has led to the creation of work that, at its core, focuses on what individual elements of preexisting material can do within an artwork once it’s been replicated and overworked to its fullest extent. By using lo-fi equipment for documentation, he embraces the unpredictability of his tools, resulting in work that relies on continuous disruption to form new visual narratives.
Matthew Wilson (b. 1991) is currently based in Edinburgh. He 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 received the RSA Benno Schotz Prize (2024), and the Dewar Award (2016, 2017). He was a selected artist for the RCA - UoC Exchange Residency in Calgary, Canada (2017) and the RSA Residencies for Scotland Award (2022/23). Exhibitions include: Invisible Cities, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Hold Your Horses, Hold Them and Never Let Them Go, CGP, London; The Sky Has no Surface, Berwick Fringe, Berwick-upon Tweed; The Same Tendency, Summerhall, Edinburgh; Inexhaustible Well, Ltd. Ink Corporation, Edinburgh; and Chemistry of the Blueprint, The Handbag Factory, London.
E-mail - mattjwilson91@gmail.com