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'Into the Wyld'(2024)
From 1st August to 21st December 2024 the Material Matters Collective will be in residency at the Williamson in Birkenhead. Into the Wyld also features work from over 20 invited artists across the region, plus an associated five month programme of performance art, poetry
readings, childrens workshops, film screenings and a symposium.
Material Matters artists will respond to key themes in the Gawain poem across three exhibitions: Nature curated by Patric Rogers from 1st Aug - 13th Sep, Chivalry curated by John Elcock from 19th Sep - 25th Oct and Spirituality curated by Angelo Madonna from 7th Nov - 21st Dec. Weavers a parallel programme of performance, talks, workshops and readings will be curated by Silvia Battista.
Gawain is a masterpiece text of the Middle Ages. The poem tells the story of King Arthurs headstrong young nephew who after a dramatic bargain with a mysterious figure faces a long journey in which he must, quite literally, keep his head. Sir Gawains quest into the wilderness of the Wirral is a fourteenth century narrative that will be given a radical 21st century interpretation by the artists.
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'Here to Become'(2023)
at Bridewell Art Studios Gallery
‘Here to Become’ is an Independents Biennial event responding to the theme of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ whose theme addresses the history and temperament of our city and its call for ancestral forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.
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Artists part of this collective are: Angelo Madonna, John Elcock, Patric Rogers and Silvia Battista
The group explores the inter-relationship between materiality and performance under a collaborative praxis we call emotional minimalism developed to explore the subjective affects of creative perception and process.
The work is expressed as a curated series of exhibitions divided into Acts, and an experimental programme of individual reflections named Test!
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