A new, specially made version of Benedict Drew's ongoing film Ecstatic Melody (2023-ongoing) will be shown on Saturday 3 May as part of a group event at The Holloway, Norwich.

Nicola Bealing's Dead Man's Fingers II and Cowrie Rock (With Teeth) are included in the group show ’Undersea’ at Hastings Contemporary.

Benedict Drew's video work A Tuning will be shown at Abject Gallery, Is This Thing On for Sunniside Nights, in Sunderland.

We are adopting a new rotating model where an existing Trustee will take on the role of Chair for a period of two years.
Jes Fernie is an independent writer and curator who has been on or Board for four years.

Graham Fagen will be exhibiting a diptych and a still life in ‘Lamps Across the River’ a group show at the Royal Scottish Academy opening this coming Saturday, followed by ‘Delia Baillie: Memory Box’ in the Academicians’ Gallery.

Hot Flash is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, animation and drawing by Melanie Jackson, that brings together two bodies of recent work, Rouge Flambé and Spekyng Rybawdy, in a pair of installations across Exeter Phoenix’s two gallery spaces. Together, they present us with an assembly of conceptual nomads, drawn from medieval sculptures of dissent; to incendiary (colonial) trading histories; to a fascination with technoscience’s visions and chimeras.

We are excited to announce our next exhibition, Strange Evidence, a new film, installation and large-scale exhibition by Michelle Williams Gamaker opening at Matt’s Gallery this spring.

Susan Hiller is featured in two new exhibitions:

Susan Hiller, Divided Self at Kunsthaus Biel, Switzerland and Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown at Culturgest, Lisbon.

Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent's ambitious immersive installation Nowhere Less Now opens at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House on Thursday 30 January 2025. The exhibition space will be completely transformed into the upturned hull of a ship and will invite people to enter a haunting exploration of time and memory.

Katie Cuddon's new exhibition No Dimensions will be on show at Matt's Gallery from 29 January - 23 March 2025.

More information to follow.

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A new version of Benedict Drew's ongoing video work Ecstatic Melody will be screened Friday 15th November as part of 'Proximity & Connection', two screening events at the Holy Trinity Church, London.

Lindsay Seers’ Optogram (2004/11) is showing as part of Art Fictions Anthology 1 opening tomorrow at ASC Gallery at The Handbag Factory, London.

Nathaniel Mellors' Invigilator (Flat) and Brow Painting XL are showing as part of the exhibition The Last Horror Show opening tomorrow at Backlit, Nottingham.

A trilogy of coastal films by artist Phil Coy is showing Friday 6th September at The Market Hall, Suffolk.

Mike Nelson has been commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana to produce new work for this year's biennale.

Graham Fagen, The Slave's Lament is now part of the Mississippi Museum of Art's permanent collection.

Graham Fagen, The End of Art is Peace opens tomorrow Saturday 10 August at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.

Publishing has been a part of Matt’s Gallery since it began and continues to be central to what we do. We are delighted to be moving ahead with this new partnership with Art Data.

Matt’s Gallery artist Jordan Baseman has been awarded FORMAT25 Dancing Through Time Commision.

The Drawing Biennial 2024 features work by Matt’s Gallery artists Alison Turnbull, Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent.

Thanet Tape Centre presents Plastique Fantastique TEK FOK Album launch.

The new installation If I Knew What Giving Up Looks Like by Imogen Stidworthy is showing during The Myth of Normal. Of Competing and Conceding, opening on 4 May at Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.

Carolyn Thompson, Vague Poetics (2023) will be shown on 11 May as part of BOOKED 2024 at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre.

Nicola Bealing's solo show Sea & Dead-man’s Fingers opens 4 May at Newlyn Art Gallery.

Vamp(yre) Reality by Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent is showing from 19 April 2024 at Riga Art Space as part of the Riga Photography Biennial 2024.

Lawn by Graham Fagen is part of the exhibition Class Matters which opens on 2 May 2024 at Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

Matthew Krishanu’s solo show The Bough Breaks opens Thursday 25 April at Camden Art Centre.

Alison Turnbull features in
Blink presents
ROOM SHARE 5
The Pickstone Room

Willie Doherty's solo show Remnant, opens Saturday 13 April at Solstice Arts Centre.

David Osbaldeston’s exhibition A Pastiche of Different Techniques opens on 5 April at Glasgow Print Studio.

No Show Space launches a new shop with 24 works by Lucy Gunning from 14 March to 17 March.

A Survival Kit by Jo Bruton is part of the exhibition Undoing, Redoing, Revolting: A Feminist Response to the Special Collections, which just opened at the Chelsea College of Art Library.

Nathaniel Mellors’ solo show Songs in the Key of Mard is open until 27 April 2024 at The Box, Los Angeles.

It came as a shock to learn that Phil Baines had passed away on 19 January. Phil had been unwell for some time, having been diagnosed with Ataxia and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) – two degenerative nervous conditions – in recent years. But just a couple of months ago, in November, I was with him at The Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins to celebrate the opening of his survey exhibition Extol.

To mark the culmination of ‘Ian McKeever: Against Architecture’ at TheGallery, AUB Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Gough will be speaking with renowned artist Ian McKeever and invited panellists about the exhibition.

The Temperament Index – the latest incarnation of Melanie Jackson’s travelling project ‘Spekyng Rybawdy’* opens in Portsmouth, 19 January 2024.

Ascension opens this weekend at The Koppel Project, Piccadilly. With performances by Michael Curran and Alex Schady at the Opening on Saturday 6 January and the Finissage on Friday 12 January.

Announcing our 2024 Programme

Mike Nelson’s solo show a forgotten kingdom, remembered opens today Friday 17 November at neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

"Phil Baines and I started collaborating almost 30 years ago; our first book was by Ian McKeever, The Marianne North Paintings, our last work was Vague Poetics written by Carolyn Thompson, which was part of the whitebook series; our working relationship was a marriage made in heaven."
Robin Klassnik

‘Ian McKeever: Against Architecture’ opens today at TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth. The show is a new configuration of the installation originally exhibited at Matt's Gallery, London, in 2017.

EUCA Annex presents The Light Becomes The Eye, an exhibition of video works including Ecstatic Melody (2023) by Benedict Drew. This new work will remain unfinished, and will be different every time it is shown.

Danielle Arnaud Gallery is pleased to announce two screenings of Oona Grimes' ‘Wool and Water’ on 26 October and 27 October 2023 at 7pm.

Tonight, a wonderful chance to see the curious, charming, and enthralling films of Paul Tarragó. A film-maker who can stop time, cast spells and float free in front of your very own eyes. A master working out of South London's sacred Mistral Studios.

Ab-Anbar presents Landmarks, a solo exhibition by London-based Iraqi-born artist and previous Matt's Gallery trustee, Jananne Al-Ani. Open Tuesday 10 October through to 11 November 2023.

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery presents A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer, a moving film portrait of the renowned human rights activist and scientist, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer OBE, created by Scottish artist, Graham Fagen.

Two shows featuring Mike Nelson’s work are now open.

Congratulations to Imogen Stidworthy who has been shortlisted for the eighth Freelands Award with Chapter gallery, Cardiff.

Hybrid Scripts is the first solo exhibition by Mike Nelson in the North East in nearly 30 years. The exhibition comprises two seminal early sculptural installations Taylor (1994) and Lionheart (1997) in direct dialogue for the first time. Both works reflect on Britain’s colonial past, migration, trade and travel. Lionheart was exhibited at Matt's Gallery as part of BACKSPACE in 1998.

As you may have seen, Acme put out a statement today announcing the sad news of the death of Jonathan Harvey OBE on 4 September 2023 at the age of 74.

A closing event for ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ will take place this evening at England & Co Gallery.

7 September 23, 7pm
England & Co at Sotheran Building
2 Sackville Street, London, W1S 3DA

Jordan Baseman’s new film ‘These Were Not Simple Deaths’ has been selected for The San Francisco Short Film Festival and The Oregon Independent Film Festival.

Alison Turnbull has completed a new permanent commission for the Chiu Court and Foyer of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. She will be in conversation with Harriet Loffler, Curator of the Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College on 16 September.

Paintings from Nicola Bealing's The Borough are featured in Group Portrait, open now at Phillida Reid.

Melanie Jackson's new solo show opens at San Mei Gallery this evening. This exhibition will be the first staging of Rouge Flambé, an ongoing body of new work linking fire, flame, animation, kiln, glaze, sun, water and earth.

San Mei Gallery
39a Loughborough Road
London
SW9 7TB
United Kingdom

Life Is More Important Than Art is now open at the Whitechapel Gallery, featuring works by Rana Begum, William Cobbing, Sarah Dobai, Susan Hiller, Matthew Krishanu, Jerome, Janette Parris, John Smith, Alia Syed, Mitra Tabrizian, Mark Wallinger and Osman Yousefzada.

William Cobbing, Susan Hiller, Matthew Krishanu and Janette Parris have all previously exhibited at Matt's Gallery.

Matt's Gallery will have a stall at the Presse Books Fair this Saturday, 17 June, at FormaHQ.

Jordan Baseman's new video work, 'These Were Not Simple Deaths', made during the Memorial Gestures residency, is on show at Holocaust Centre North until the end of July 2023.

National Galleries of Scotland have acquired a fascinating portrait of renowned human rights activist and scientist, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, created by Scottish artist, Graham Fagen. In the compelling 19-minute video, Graham Fagen truly captures Sir Geoff’s story and spirit.

Weighting Time, a survey exhibition exploring 30 years of Fiona Crisp's work, is showing across two venues - Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

Jordan Baseman's film 'Do Faster Win More', 2022 is showing on The Arts and Heritige Screening Room, as part of their new regular online feature of artist films.

Available to view 18 April - 7 May 2023.

'Milk' at the Wellcome Collection, which includes a new iteration of Mel Jackson and Esther Leslie's project ‘Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat’, is included in The Guardian's Best Free Spring Culture List.

un, a context-specific work by Lucy Gunning, is now open at No Show Space, London.

The building's history as a furniture workshop will inform activities that take place during this period using elements and props from the installation. un follows Xylo~phone (2022), a film of a table the artist has known all her life, recorded on her iPhone for MattFlix. The same table is present in un titled Inheritance on wheels.

the show runs through until 27 May 2023, Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 pm and by appointment.

Lindsay Seers' 'Optograms' series is included in the group show ‘Double Knowledge’ at Alice Black Gallery, London, opening on 13 April.

7 Windmill Street
W1T 2JD
14 April - 13 May
Private View: 13 April, 6 - 8pm

Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie present a new iteration of their project Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat in the exhibition Milk at The Wellcome Collection, opening this Thursday.

Rough Seas, a survey of Susan Hiller's Rough Seas works, opens at Lisson Gallery from March 14 – April 15

Carolyn Thompson is showing work in the group show 'Re-readings' at Eagle gallery, which runs until 17 March.

Jordan Baseman will be showing his video work Gigantic (2019) in the group show We lived happily during the war at Cross Lane Projects.

25 March – 22 April 2023
Opening: Friday 24 March, 6-8pm

Michael Curran features in Conciërgerie, a show of work in a disused concierge apartment in Antwerp.

The Foundling Museum have acquired Joyful News by represented artist Nicola Bealing.

The 18th-century ballad 'Joyful News for Bachelors and Maids' poked fun at the Foundling Hospital, suggesting it would encourage promiscuity. Bealing took inspiration from this bawdy song for the painting, now on display at the museum.

The Guardian has written a feature on represented artist Mike Nelson ahead of his solo show at the Hayward Gallery.

Melanie Jackson's work Deeper in the Pyramid is included in an upcoming exhibition Milk at the Wellcome Collection, and a new publication Microbiopolitics of Milk, edited by INLAND as part of Documenta Fifteen.

Imogen Stidworthy is one of the recipients of the Radical Therapies Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship, awarded By The Richard And Mary L. Gray Center For Arts And Inquiry, University Of Chicago.

Jordan Baseman has been selected as one of three artists taking part in the Holocaust Centre North's inaugural Memorial Gestures Residency Programme, supported by the Iby Knill Bursaries.

Represented artist Mike Nelson is exhibiting his works in a solo show at the Hayward Gallery, from 22 February - 7 May. Extinction Beckons is the first major survey of work by Mike Nelson, who has shown at Matt's Gallery on 6 occasions since 1996. For more information and to book, visit the Hayward Gallery website.

Michael Curran collaborates with Marie-Sophie Beinke at Moonstreet Projects, Antwerp.

19 December 2022 – 4 February 2023

Swedenborg Film Festival 2022 is taking place on Saturday 10 December, from 6-9:30PM. Free entry, book tickets via the Swedenborg Society website.

DUST welcomes you to the first of a series of DUST-DUST Gatherings to celebrate the West Penwith launch of 'Widowhood', Bronwen Buckeridge's artist book published by Matt's Gallery in 2021. Join us at Dust 4pm Saturday 10th December for readings, sound and a glass of something warming.

In Taiwan, Lindsay Seers' work is on show as part of Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project at MoCA Taipei. Curated by Wang Han-Fang, the group exhibition also features works by Joyce Ho, Kosta Tonev, Ericka Beckman, Chang Yun-Han and Chang Wen-Hsuan.

On Friday 9 December, join Forma Arts and Media for the official launch party of Presse Books at Forma HQ, where Benedict Drew will be presenting a site-specific commission from 6PM.

24 November 2022 - 25 January 2023
Moon Grove, Manchester
PV Wednesday 23 November, 6-9PM

Several artists who have worked with Matt's Gallery over the years feature in The Horror Show!, a major exhibition now open at Somerset House. Including works by Anne Bean, Lucy Gunning, Susan Hiller, Harminder Judge, Tina Keane, Lindsey Mendick, Tai Shani and Suzanne Treister among many others; The Horror Show! celebrates our greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries, examining how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion in Britain.

The Horror Show! is co-curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall, who also conceived the idea.

Two paintings by Nicola Bealing are included in the exhibition Head to Head, at GBS Fine Art until 26 November.

Due to travel disruption, this event has been moved from Saturday 5 November 2022.

Work by Anne Bean will be included in The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain at Somerset House, open 27 Oct 2022 – 19 Feb 2023.

Work by Lindsay Seers will be in included in the exhibition Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 5 November 2022 - 29 January 2023.

Jordan Baseman's film, A River in Reverse, will be screened 30 October 8pm, as part of the UNTV Drive-in Cinema in the heart of Western lutruwita/Tasmania, produced by cultural organisation The Unconformity.

Jordan Baseman's film, A Different Kind of Different, will be screened 27 October in Eugene, Oregon, as part of the Oregon Independent Film Festival. The film has been awared Best Short Film at the festival.

Cold Light by Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent opens at Turner Contemporary, 22 October 2022 - 8 January 2023. Cold Light, a new video installation and virtual reality work, was first shown at Matt's Gallery earlier this year and was developed in partnership with Turner Contemporary and E-WERK Luckenwalde.

A solo presentation of Anne Bean's work, with England & Co, London, will be part of the Spotlight section at Frieze Masters, 12-16 October 2022.

Alison Turnbull has recently completed a commission for Peterhouse Technology Park in Cambridge. Taking inspiration from the surrounding architecture, and the microchips being designed inside, Those tiny little sparks borrows its title from a song by Norwegian electronic duo Röyksopp.

Melanie Jackson's work is included in Brewers Towner International at Towner Eastbourne, 15 October 2022 - 22 January 2023. Melanie will be showing a new 10 minute single screen edit of Spekyng Rybawdy and a selection of ceramic and plywood sculptures

An exhibition of a new body of work by Willie Doherty opens at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 15 October - 19 November.

An article on Alison Turnbull's work 'ATX 2012 Apple Varieties' has been published by Apples & People. Read the article here.

Brian Catling (1948-2022)

Work by Hayley Newman and Anne Bean is included in Out of the Margins at Whitechapel Gallery, 30 August 2022 – 15 January 2023.

Work by Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen is included in MOUTHPIECE at the New Media Gallery, Vancouver, October 1 - December 11, 2022.

The 5th edition of the Middlesbrough Art Weekender invites over 75 artists to explore the theme 'power POWER'. This is the fourth consecutive year that Matt's Gallery has worked with Middlesbrough Art Weekender, who are presenting Overlay by Leah Capaldi at their Auxiliary Project Space.

LICHTEKOOI, TWHYLIGHT: an evening with Michael Curran & film screening of Jacques Rivette's 1976 Masterpiece DUELLE, 24.09.2022 at 8 pm, part of 'Zomer in de kloostertuin' at Extra City.

Cold Light by Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent in collaboration with Performance Electrics opens 17 September at E-WERK Luckenwalde. Cold Light was first shown here at Matt's Gallery 29 April – 17 July 2022, and was produced through a collaboration between E-WERK, Turner Contemporary and Matt's Gallery.

Spekyng Rybawdy, a run of silk scarves by Melanie Jackson, will be exhibited and available to purchase at SupaVenezia from August 31st at A plus A Gallery. You can also purchase a scarf at the Matt's Gallery online shop here.

Work by Nicola Bealing is included in ‘Like there is hope and I can dream of another world’ at Hauser & Wirth, Savile Row, until 14th September. Work from the exhibition will be auctioned in aid of Hospital Rooms, hosted by Bonhams, with online bidding from 8th September.

Jordan Baseman has selected 5 films each by a different filmmaker, available to watch on demand, for Cryptofiction.

An exhibition of the work of Jo Bruton and Rosa Lee will open at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 20 August-1 October.

Leah Capaldi has shared some writing on her time at the New Contemporaries British School at Rome Residency, which took place in November 2021.

High on Hope, 23 July – 24 September 2022 at Cross Lanes Project, has been conceived as a memorial exhibition for the artist Gerard Hemsworth (1945-2021). It brings together a selection of Hemsworth’s canvases with that the work by eight other artists whom he taught, on the Master’s programme at Goldsmiths College, London, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Next at Matt's Gallery:
Nathaniel Mellors
Estate
25 Sept - 18 Dec 2022

Work by Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent will be included in the Mayor of London Liberty Festival, 22 – 24 July.

Work by Lucy Gunning and Annie Whiles will be included in Host & Guest / Nick Stewart & Friends, opening at PALFREY 9 July 2-8pm.

Jordan Baseman's film gendersick will be shown at Whitechapel Gallery as part of the London Open 2022, 30 June - 4 September.

David Osbaldeston will be taking part in the Art Car Boot Sale at SWG3 in Glasgow, 25 and 26 June.

Director Lucile Hadzihalilovic discusses her new film based on Brian Catling's novella Earwig in Diabolique Magazine.

Nicola Bealing's work will be included in Dowch i Brestatyn Heulog (Come to Sunny Prestatyn) at ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff, 2nd July - 20th August.

Newt Tank by Nicola Bealing has been selected by Stephen Chambers RA for inclusion in this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 21 June — 21 August 2022.

Last chance to see the exhibition A A TO T V (CLADINORO) GIORGIO SADOTTI at No Show Space, closing 11 June.

Work by Jennet Thomas will be included in this year's Whitstable Biennale, 11 June-19 June.

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Oona Grimes has been awarded the Bryan Robertson Award.

Nicola Bealing will be showing in the group exhibition ‘A Modern Capricho’ at Cross Lane Projects, London, opening 28 May, 6-8pm.

The first staff pick for our new shop is ‘Dark is The Night’ by Jordan Baseman, selected by Tuna El-Salihie, Stanley Picker Trainee.

Brian Catling's novella 'Earwig' has been adapted into a film, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, in cinemas June 10. Click here watch the trailer.

Matt's Gallery congratulates writer and curator Gilane Tawadros on her appointment as Director of Whitechapel Gallery. Tawadros was a Matt's Gallery Trustee between 2014 and 2016. She will take up her post in October 2022.

Jarosław Kozłowski's Archive of Ideas is exhibiting Robin Klassnik work in the archival exhibition NEO-DADA. IRONIA. KONTESTACJA in Poznan, Poland. Klassnik's works in the exhibition are a collection of postcards and rubber stamps he sent to Kozlowski in 1975. Kozlowski's gallery Akumulatory 2 (1972-1990) was the inspiration for Klassnik's establishing of Matt's Gallery in 1979.

Anne Bean will be Performing the Wormhole Contract at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle on 14th May at 7pm.

Graham Fagen RSA and Edward Summerton RSA are exhibiting their piece, Social Housing (For the Strict Nature Reserve) in the RSA’s 196th Annual Exhibition. The show is on Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm until 12 June.

Graham Fagen has released a limited edition giclée print ‘Nancy, Bell, Roselle (The ships that Robert Burns booked passages to Jamaica on) (2022) for the National Galleries of Scotland.

Jordan Baseman film A Different Kind of Different has won the People's Choice Award in the Animation category at Humboldt Int'l Film Festival.

Alison Turnbull is featured in Sorting Britain: The Power of Postcodes at The Postal Museum. This exhibition celebrates the story of a postal innovation that changed life in Britain. From the price of your house to range of health care you can access, postcodes impact people daily. They developed in the mid-20th century to help sort and process the post. Since then, they have become much more than that.

Alison Turnbull presents a new site-specific work, Rhododendron Jazz Band as part of Rhododendrons: Riddle, Obsession, Threat at Edinburgh's Inverleith House. Coinciding with the peak flowering period of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s rhododendrons, the exhibition reveals the organisations’ significant history of collecting, researching and cultivating this unique plant.

Frances Scott's Aureole commissioned by Matt's Gallery for MattFlix, will screen in 'Diffraction of Language' at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 2-8 May 2022 - with Apichatpong Weerasethakul retrospective and Dara Birnbaum carte blanche.

A massive thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Matt's Gallery, Nine Elms.

Block 336 is very pleased to be showing Spekyng Rybawdy, the latest and most ambitious incarnation of Melanie Jackson’s ongoing project exploring the transgressive narratives and explicit symbolism of Medieval pilgrim bawdy badges. Through a carnival of colourful, erotically charged characters, Spekyng Rybawdy encourages us to re-examine not only our ideas about who took part in the production and circulation of imagery in the medieval period – but also how this might enable us to reconsider the origins of dissenting representations, sexual politics and our attitudes and behaviours today.

Read Michael Curran in conversation with Chris Valentine. Curran explores the themes and dreams of Valentine Lyons. Trish Lyons is a long term collaborator of Curran's. The two performed Karaoke Macbeth at the Macbeth public house in Hoxton St in 1999. Lyons consequently appeared in both Love in A Cold Climate and most notably singing in Curran's Look What The Done To My Song at Matt's Gallery in 2007. Lyons also wrote the text St. Cecilia for the show's notes.