CV
about
Encompassing a variety of themes - transience, brokenness vs wholeness, doubt and faith, hope, joy and sadness - Matthew James Kay makes books, small films, sculptures, pictures and music about the uncomfortable process of living - signposting the beautiful in the mundane, or the transcendent in the everyday and (in both instances) vice-versa. Matthew lives and works in South West London.
education
2008-09: MA Fine Art Sculpture @ University of the Arts London
2001-04: BA Fine Art Sculpture @ Loughborough University
selected exhibitions
2013
giant zoetrope with heather jones @ pump house gallery, london + the Shimmy, london
2012
artist in residence @ construction gallery, london
2011
weekly makes @ theLost&Found
laura and lauren's christmas arty party @ dirty dicks, london
2010
sisyphus: the absurd hero @ core gallery, london
performance with heather jones for "touch village" @ a foundation, liverpool
interrobang @ the book club, london
not holding the string [solo] @ a&e gallery, brighton
performance with heather jones for "artevict" @ artevict, london
[details on request]: launch @ under the dust, london
tra'la presents - dead time and negative space @ william goodenough house, london
2009
wimbledon college of art ma show @ wimbledon college of art, london
sculpture in the sanctuary @ hill farm, normanton
intersections @ the nunnery, london
2008
we all are domestic adventurers @ theLost&Found, loughborough
jackinabox @ exit here, nottingham
2007
beneath the tarmac; the grass @ bromley house library, nottingham
red wire open @ red wire gallery, liverpool
artober @ the pocklington gallery, leicester
songs without names [solo] @ the upstairs gallery, leicester
junior household legend @ theLost&Found, loughborough
2006
the postcard show @ the surface gallery, nottingham
open 18 @ the city gallery, leicester
2005
incubate arts group presents - maroc @ schofield centre, loughborough