Diagram IIa (“florid”)
Pen and pencil on paper
210x150cm
2009

Untitled (Human spleen, dog digestive apparatus, horse biceps brachii and deltoidus, amorphalus titanus fower.)
Digital image from pen and ink drawings
25x30cm
2008

B.B.B.
Oil, gloss, acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
210x120cm
2008

Seasonal Variation
Oil, gloss and marker on canvas.
115x135cm
2007

Diagram IIb (florid propagation)
Pen on paper
290 x 150cm
2009

'Pass, Crow' (After Ted Hughes)
Taxidermy crow, wax, steel rod
2009

Matt Collier

“the belief inherited from medieval science, that the man who managed to separate the different natures tightly bound together during his existence would succeed in freeing within himself the profound sense of life”

My work at present is caught between a history of observational knowledge of the body, towards something far more fantastical. In particular, documentation and its depiction of anatomical and botanical references, inspired by the potential they offer- in science, or in exclusive speculation. Advanced scenarios in science ask the ‘what if’ question, offering the promise of life to become excessively beautiful, or something truly ominous.

Diagrams and illustrations offer a propositional status, at the same time as being utterly subjective. The manipulative powers of geometry has always had difficulty dealing with the organic. I am interested in playing with fixed distinctions, challenging certain existential hierarchies.