Exploring the intimate and generative interplay of meaning in a context without fixed interpretations, Wayne Matthews (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Gqeberha, South Africa. His work draws from contemporary visual culture, literature, and cosmogonic myth, presenting an emergent iconography that embraces shifting styles and materials as part of its subject matter.
Working primarily in collage, drawing, and assemblage, Matthews incorporates a range of materials such as graphite, dust, foodstuffs, torn paper, palindromes, and phonemes. These fragments of word, object, and image are freely integrated into abstract, semi-figurative, and figurative forms.
A graduate of Nelson Mandela University (2006), Matthews was awarded a fellowship from the Ampersand Foundation in New York (2019) and the ABSA L'Atelier Merit Award (2007). He has served as a lecturer, curator, and gallery director and is a founding member of the experimental Labyrinth Project. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and internationally, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide.
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Exploring the intimate and generative interplay of meaning in a context without fixed interpretations, Wayne Matthews (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Gqeberha, South Africa. His work draws from contemporary visual culture, literature, and cosmogonic myth, presenting an emergent iconography that embraces shifting styles and materials as part of its subject matter.
Working primarily in collage, drawing, and assemblage, Matthews incorporates a range of materials such as graphite, dust, foodstuffs, torn paper, palindromes, and phonemes. These fragments of word, object, and image are freely integrated into abstract, semi-figurative, and figurative forms.
A graduate of Nelson Mandela University (2006), Matthews was awarded a fellowship from the Ampersand Foundation in New York (2019) and the ABSA L'Atelier Merit Award (2007). He has served as a lecturer, curator, and gallery director and is a founding member of the experimental Labyrinth Project. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and internationally, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide.
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