Centre for Print Research Artist Talks for Students
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Wed 15 March 2023
16:15 - 17:00 - Location
- Online: Zoom
- Contact
- Centre for Print Research cfprinfo@uwe.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Attendance
- Booking required
Description
Matt Smith
Matt Smith explores how history is a constantly selected and refined narrative, that presents itself as a fixed and accurate account of the past. Using techniques of institutional critique and artist intervention, his work investigates how museums can be reframed from an outsider, often LGBTQ, perspective by taking objects and repurposing them in new situations, or creating ‘lost objects’.
Solo shows have included Queering the Museum (2010) at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Flux: Parian Unpacked (2018) at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Losing Venus (2020-2022) at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 2016 Matt was awarded an AHRC funded practice-based PhD from the University of Brighton exploring the intersection of contemporary art practice and queer identities.
From 2017-2022 Matt was Professor of Craft at Konstfack University in Stockholm and in 2016 was artist-in-residence at the V&A where he explored how historic figurines could address questions of representation within the museum.
Registration and tickets
Please email cfprinfo@uwe.ac.uk to register for this event.
- Cost: Free
- Attendance: Booking required
Location
This is an online event: Zoom
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