Matthew Llyod
Contact: lloyd_untitled@hotmail.com
Artists Statement
Personally the process of creating art is just as important as the final
outcome. When I am working I wish to be in a unconsciousness state of
mind. By doing this I am able to give my chosen mediums a movement of
uncertainty and looseness, the results become organic and surprising. To
work this way with a primitive mind is very important to me because I
believe I am able to achieve the purest art I can. I am able to have a
child-like freedom, able to let my mind wonder without concern or
restrictions.
My influences come from everything I have heard, seen and experienced.
When picking a subject to draw/paint about I take a different approach. I
pick a philosophy, a theory, a thought, a dream etc…I question it,
dissect it, and attach it back together, then show it in the simplest
way I can.
My subject matter challenges myself as well as other people. I pick
subjects that are important to me, and I need to show them on paper.
Sometimes its something people may not know, other times it is something
people may not want to know.
My art tell stories, they are puzzles, they have messages some clear and
some not. I want the onlooker to try and solve my work, enjoy it, be
challenged by it, and feel it, just as I have when making it.
Each work I produce no matter of size or medium, helps me discover more
about myself. For me as a person and a artist I want to push myself as
much as I can on all levels.
ART RELATED EXPERENCE
- BA (hons) Graphic Arts -
Illustration Course at John Moores University, 2007 - 2010
- Having one of my Zines accepted for the Rude
Britannia Exhibition at Tate Britain, on display in the Reading Room. June
- Sept 2010
-Graffiti art in London for the Cans
Festival. Leake Street Tunnel- May 2008
- Giving a ladder for Yoko Onos Liverpool Biennial.
Luke's Church installation,
July 2008. This installation then moved to Gateshead.
- My work being published for the AOI (Association of
Illustrators).
There yearly annual. Images 33 2009. Work shown in
London College of Communication exhibition. July - Aug 2009
- Selling self published Zines at FACT (Foundation for
Art and Creative Technology)
May/Aug 2009.
- Creator of the Unclaimed Photography Exhibition at The International Gallery (Liverpool). Photographs from Samsoms Camera store, found by me in a skip, and put on show. Gave BBC News North West an interview. Aug 2009.
