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| Matthew John Atkinson |
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Born: 12/08/85, Gravesend.
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| About the Artist |
NEVERNEVERLAND
As a subject for painting, I choose particular places that through time gradually lose purpose and identity, becoming strange remnant lands that slip from the daily conscious; concluding in (in-) visible blemished absences in our surroundings. They are ‘there’ but ‘nowhere’, subsisting.
NeverNeverLand is the title given to a new body of work exploring children’s graves and memorials. The term NeverNeverLand comes loaded with connotations that perfectly encapsulate concepts surrounding children’s graves. One dictionary definition of Neverneverland is a utopian dreamland; this could refer to an idyllic afterlife one might expect and wish for dead children. In graveyards, this utopian spirit/next world is embodied physically in the shrines to childhood placed on graves; these consist of toys, cuddly bears, candles, wind chimes, cards and so on.
However, the most immediate reference is derived from Peter Pan stories, in the book by J.M Barrie. Subsequently, a whole visual culture has been developed as a result of film and television version. The juxtaposition of a child’s grave with commercial products is unsettling enough; this is reinforced by the use of children’s duvet covers as substitute canvas.
Moving closer to the ideas and origins of Peter Pan, NeverNeverLand is somewhere between heaven and earth. The Lost Boys are children who have fallen out of their pram and if they are not claimed in seven days they are sent to the Never Land forever and do not grow old. The Lost Boys are a simple metaphor for dead children, epitomising the idea that all children who die young will invariably remain a child regardless of time passing. Through the fixed and motionless images of painting I aim to represent the child’s changeless state.
In contrast to this changeless state, graves have a sense of transience and entropy. I present children’s graves using a shifting painted language where natural weathering and deterioration are mimicked through my use of paint. Each painting is devised in relation to a grave’s own characteristics i.e. toys, colours, composition etc. in a bid to individualise and bring a sense of personality portraying the child.
Finally, NeverNeverLand is also a reference to the Australian outback, sometimes called the Never-never, a land remote, uninhabitable, undesirable and void. This definition echoes the bleak perception of Gravesend, my hometown and inspiration.
The aims of the paintings are to capture an intimate appreciation of each place, expressing an otherworldly yet beautiful found strangeness, akin to forgotten memories. In each painting, I imbue each depicted place with purpose and celebrate its existence, an existence that might otherwise continue unnoticed.
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Kent & Essex: Capriccio or Veduta
2008 Oil on Silk Cotton Mix 180x150cm |
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2008 Oil on Silk 180x120cm |
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Ere one my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace my prayers to say! |
2008 Oil and Acrylic on Cotton 180x120cm |
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The noiseless fort of time steals swiftly by,
And ere we dream of manhood age is nigh.
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2008 Oil and Acrylic on Silk 180x120cm |
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Kent & Essex |
2008 Oil and Acrylic on Cotton 180x120cm |
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Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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2008 Oil and Acrylic on Cotton 180x120cm |
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I have a silent sorrow here,
A grief I’ll ne’er impart;
A breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear,
But it consumes my heart. |
Welcome to Dreamland
2009 Oil and Golf Leaf on Silk 240x180cm |
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| Education and biography |
Mercury Art Prize –
The Hospital. The Gallery,24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ.
16th April 2007.
Celeste Art Prize -
Old Truman Brewery Complex. 91-95 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL.
21st -27th May 2007.
Celeste Art Prize -
Lyon & Turnbull. 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RR.
7th -13th June 2007.
Salon 07 -
Seven-Seven Contemporary. 77 Broadway Market, London Fields, London E84PH.
8th -11th July 2007.
Open Show
Surface Gallery.Basement (NVAC), 7 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham. NG1 3FB.
1st –25th August 2007.
Private Prop -
The Residence Gallery. St. Mary of Eton Church, London, E9 5JA.
3rd August –1st September 2007.
Miniature Art Show -
42 New Briggate Gallery. 42 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU
1st September –8th September 2007.
Pipe Dream - Tether Festival –
17 Huntingdon Street, Nottingham, England NG1 3GH.
19th November –24th November 2007.
Triangle Residency – Marseille.
January –March 2008.
Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean XIII Edition, Puglia. -
May 2008.
Florence Trust Residency
August 2008 - July 2009.
Scope Art Fair - Saatchi Online, London.
October 2008.
Florence Trust Winter Open.
Florence Trust, St Saviours, Aberdeen Park, London, N5 2AR.
January 2009.
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| Future shows |
Welcome to Dreamland.
Numero Six Galerie, Aix en Provence.
November 2009. |
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