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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 M.A.F.A. Goldsmiths College;
1980-83 B.A.F.A. Maidstone College of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
All the World’s a Sunny Day, Matt’s Gallery, London
2014
Miss, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth and South Square Gallery, Bradford
2012
Cast, Matt’s Gallery & Dilston Grove, Dilston Grove, London
2010
Roy Voss, Fordham Gallery, London
2008
Pine, Matt’s Gallery, London
2006
No place like home, Beacon Art Projects, Heritage sites, Boston, Lincolnshire;
Roy Voss, 3˚W Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
2002
Roy Voss, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2000
These Days: New works by Roy Voss, Percy Miller Gallery, London
1998
Black and Blue, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
A Union of Voices, Horatio Junior, London
2013
After Hours Drop Box, Modern Art, Oxford; Spike Island, Bristol;
For What It Is John Lawrence, Roy Voss, Andor Gallery, London;
Wonderland, Annely Juda Gallery, London;
Drawing 2013, The Drawing Room, London
2012
After Hours Drop Box, Andor Gallery, London;
Multiplied, Christies, London;
Matt’s Gallery artists at Deutsche Bank, Great Winchester Street, London;
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London;
In Residence, Lancaster University Gallery;
Switch, Curated by Phyllida Barlow, Baltic 39, Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
Ps and Qs, Joshua Baskin Gallery, Glasgow
2011
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London;
Fordham Gallery at Maddox Arts, London;
Multiplied with Matt’s Gallery, Christies, London;
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London
2010
Modern Love, Simon Oldfield gallery, London;
The Crystal Palace (Destroyed), Works Projects, Bristol;
Kate Davis, Roy Voss, The Russian Club Gallery, London;
Sameness and Difference, The Russian Club Gallery, London
2009
Rotate, Contemporary Arts Society, London;
Betrayal, East House Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway / Whitecross Gallery, London;
Shunt: David Fletcher, Simon Logan, Roy Voss, Cluster Gallery, Berlin;
Drawing 2009 - Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London;
Collaborators, Room, London
2008
The Lighthouse Keeper. A short story of romantic childhood ambitions. (Performance). What do Artists do? Participating artist in research project organised by Phyllida Barlow, Unit 18 studios, London;
Skit (Performance) David Cheeseman and Roy Voss, The Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre;
I am Comedy, Worm, Rotterdam; W139, Amsterdam; HMK, Hoorn;
Farmer’s Market, Handel Street Projects, London;
Zoo Art Fair with Works Projects, Royal Academy, London;
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Michael Dean and Roy Voss, The Pit, London;
Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy, London;
ETC, Amergerfælledvej Art Project, Copenhagen
2006
Multiples, Room, Bristol, Room, London;
Altered Beast, Three Colts Gallery, London;
Picnic Area (Dumb Interior), curated by Simon Morrissey, Room, Bristol
2005
Multiples, Lot, Bristol;
Painting: London, Holly Snapp Gallery, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
2004
dreaming of a white, Arts and Business, London; Arteriera, Bologna
2003
Side Track, Percy Miller Gallery, London;
Scenery, Nouva Icona at Santa Maria del Soccorso, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice;
Scenery, Richard Salmon Gallery, London;
Approaching Content, Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston; Crafts Council Gallery, London
2002
Art Brussels with Percy Miller Gallery, Brussels
2001
Bitter Sweet, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London;
Tom Chamberlain / Mandy Ure / Udo Noger / Roy Voss, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart;
ARTissma, Turin, Italy
2000
Recent Paintings: Alan Brooks, Gerard Quinn, Roy Voss, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall;
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London;
Paintings: Simon Callery, Jane Harris, Mandy Ure, Roy Voss, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham; ARTissma Turin, Italy;
20/21 British Art, Royal College of Art, London;
Art Forum, Berlin
1999
Reciprocity: Forster, Leapman, Voorsanger, Voss, The Sun and Doves Gallery, London;
Furniture, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Edwardes Square Studios, London
1998
In a meeting: Bella Kerr, Jonathan Parsons, Stewart Wilson, Roy Voss, Grayson House, London;
Craft, Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Vardy Gallery, Sunderland; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge;
20th Century British Art, Royal College of Art, London
1997
Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London;
Plastic, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall; Arnolfini, Bristol;
Remaking Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1996
Plastic, Richard Salmon Gallery, London;
Between Patients, Swan Yard, London
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Bibliography
Public Collections
British Government Collection, The Aspen Collection of Contemporary Art, Penguin Books, Wordsworth Trust, Arts Council, England
Contemporary Arts Society
Catalogues and publications
2013
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery ISBN 9780854882069
2011
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery ISBN 9780956832924
2010
A Sculpture Walked into a Bar, Ian Hunt, the Russian Club Gallery
2009
Pine Roy Voss, ISBN 9780907623632
2008
Roy Voss, ISBN 9780907623625
2007
Michael Dean Roy Voss, ISBN 100954702581
2006
No place like home, Sotiris Kyriacou, John Plowman, ISBN 09555362601;
Roy Voss, Juan Cruz, Simon Morrissey, ISBN 190525606X
2003
Scenery, Martin Herbert, Bernard Walsh, Andrew Spicer, Sally O’Reilly, ISBN 8887632197;
Approaching Content, Mark Beasley, Jonathan Parsons ISBN 1903713099
2001
New Paintings by Simon Callery, Jane Harris, Mandy Ure, Roy Voss, Martin Herbert, Simon Wallis, ISBN 1900809 80X
1999
Furniture, Paul Heber-Percy, Martin Herbert, ISBN 1873550111
1998
Roy Voss Black and Blue, Stuart Morgan, Martin Herbert ISBN 1873550092;
Craft: Simon Watney, Janis Jefferies and Roy Voss, ISBN 1873550074
1997
Plastic, Neil Cummings. ISBN 187355001X 1996 Remaking Reality, Simon Wallis. ISBN 090707460X
Selected Reviews
2012
Nicholas Warner, ArtMonthly, September;
Martin Herbert, ArtMonthly, November
2009
Larne Abse Gocarty, Art Monthly, May
2008
Ilsa Colsell, Frieze, October;
Laura Wilson, Artvehicle No. 36, November–December;
Rajesh Punj, Flash Art. International Edition. Vol. XLI No. 263;
Pick of the week, The Guardian, 20 September
2007
Kristine Kern, Politiken, Lorday, 3 November
2006
Cat Davidson, Picnic Area (dumb interior), Metro, 6 February;
Charles Danby, Picnic Area (dumb interior), a-n, April
2003
Martin Coomer, Time Out No.1706;
Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 1 March
2002
Mark Wilshire, What's On, 5 June;
Paul Clark, Evening Standard, 3 May;
Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, 30 May;
Mark Wilshire, Sight Specific, 30 May
2001
Martin Herbert, Profile: Roy Voss, Art Review, 11 November;
Simon Morley, The Independent on Sunday, 13 August;
Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 6 May
1999
Lisa Panting, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 23;
Deborah Schultz, Art Monthly, No. 225;
Martin Coomer, Time Out No. 1489;
John Tozer, Art Monthly No. 212
1998
Juan Cruz, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 20;
Sue Hubbard, Time Out No. 1456
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