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Matt Rowe

Folkestone
Matt Rowe's object based practice is focused on vernacular symbols, language and folklore. He often combines various disciplines, ceramics, model making and textiles to produce sculptural costumes, props and artifacts that play with notions of regional and local identity. He uses his costumes and props as a means to create unexpected structures in the landscape that echo with associations of storybook narratives and ancient legends. Continuingly photographing his structures, he is developing a portfolio of landscape images that blur the real and the imaginary.
 

John Barleycorn must Die

Windmill Ghillie

Collapsing EU

Red Velvet Ghillie

Chroma Blue Ghillie

Beyond Savage

Chroma Green Ghillie

Cascade

Hand Of Lard And Glory

Floral Ghillie

Dirty Net Curtains

Volcanic Mass

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