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Throughout the summer Roy Voss has been using the gallery as a studio to produce a new body of work for his first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery.

Pine centres on the relationships between object and image. Assisted readymades – adapted domestic lamps in the form of figures, plants and buildings – populate a reconfigured gallery space adorned with large-scale painted backdrops and digitally printed wallpaper of landscapes containing single words.

Registers of public and domestic space are disrupted with internal walls and apertures providing multiple viewing points within the gallery, choreographing the viewer’s movement through the space and creating a sense of theatricality that is redoubled by the artist’s manipulation of natural and artificial light sources.

Monochrome wallpaper features double images of signs within country-scapes – white words on wooden frameworks erected in situ – whose exotic grandeur evokes nostalgia and alludes to exploration, wandering and wondering. Images and words form alliances with the sculptures, reinforcing or undermining emergent associations. Single words suggest double meanings. Repeated, they become gentle admonishments or soft reassurances.

A new publication by Roy Voss, the eighteenth in the second series of Matt’s Gallery booklets, is free to visitors throughout the exhibition. A limited edition print is available during the exhibition.

To see work in progress for this exhibition click here

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Biography
Studied 1990-92 MA Goldsmiths College 1980-83; BA Maidstone College of Art Selected recent exhibitions 2008 Art Futures Bloomberg Space, London 2007 Michael Dean and Roy Voss The Pit, London; ETC (including Eric Bainbridge, Phyllida Barlow, Peter Fillingham) Amagerfælledvej Art Project, Copenhagen 2006 no place like home Beacon Art Projects (one of five solo projects at heritage sites, Boston, Lincolnshire); Roy Voss 3°W Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere; Altered Beast Three Colts Gallery, London; Picnic Area (Dumb Interior) Room, Bristol 2005 Multiples Lot, Bristol; Painting: London Holly Snapp Gallery, Venice (51st Venice Biennial) 2004 dreaming of a white Arts and Business, London and Arteriera, Bologna 2003 Side Track Percy Miller Gallery, London; scenery Nouva Icona at Santa Maria del Soccorso, Venice (50th Venice Biennial); scenery Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Approaching Content Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston and Crafts Council Gallery, London 2002 Roy Voss Percy Miller Gallery, London 2001 Bitter Sweet Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Tom Chamberlain/Mandy Ure/Udo Noger/ Roy Voss Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart ARTissma Turin, Italy 2000 These Days Percy Miller Gallery, London; Recent Paintings Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; Drawing Percy Miller Gallery, London; New Paintings Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham; 20/21 British Art Royal College of Art, London; Art forum, Berlin Berlin 1999 Reciprocity The Sun and Doves Gallery, London; Furniture Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and Edwardes Square Studios, London; Art 99 Business Design Centre, London 1998 Black and Blue Richard Salmon Gallery, London; In a meeting Grayson House, London; Craft Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Vardy Gallery, Sunderland and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

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