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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, 51^st 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, 50^th 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; 20^th 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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