Biography

Matthew Harris is a graduate of the textile course at Goldsmiths College and has been working with textiles since 2000, having for the previous ten years made and exhibited drawings and works on paper. He has shown in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.K, Ireland and Japan.

Matthew Harris makes work that employs dying, cutting and hand stitching. It is concerned primarily with abstract imagery and the translation of drawn marks into cloth. By making work that is pieced, patched and assembled, he aims to create pieces that explore repetition, pattern and the disrupted or dissonant journey of line and image across and through the surface of cloth.

Curriculum Vitae

• Education

• Hereford College of Art.

  1982-1984

• Goldsmith College.
  B.A. Hons Textiles

  1984-1987

• Grants and Awards

• 2010 January

  Arts Foundation Shortlist. Textile Art

• 2004/5 March

  Crafts Council. Outward mission Japan

• 2001 September

  Crafts Council. Setting Up Grant.

• 2001 July

  PRYM award for outstanding use of hand stitch

• Solo Exhibitions.

• 2013 October 

  Material Matters

• 2008 June

  Trace Elements. Black Swan Gallery, Frome. Drawings and Cloth. Touring show

• 2001 August

  Cheltenham International Music Festival. ’After Gruppen’ Cloth and Drawings inspired by Stockhausen’s score.

• 1996 February

  The Pump House Gallery, London. Large works on paper.

• 1991 April

  Ash Gallery, Royal Mile, Edinburgh. ‘Sowers’ Drawing and Sculpture.

• 1990 April

  Ash Gallery, Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Works on Paper.

• Selected Mixed Exhibitions

• 2013 September

  Rendezvous Goldsmiths
  Ruthin Craft Centre

• 2013 May

  Collect
  Saatchi Gallery, London, Represented by Contemporary Applied Arts.

         

• 2013 April

  50/50 A Japanese Journey. Matthew Harris/Cleo Mussi
  Russell-Coates Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth

• 2013 February

  Matthew Harris  Tim Rowan
  Erskine, Hall and Coe, London

           

• 2012 November

  Nadelwerke, Galerie Handwerk, Munich

• 2012 May

  Collect
  Saatchi Gallery, London, Represented by Contemporary Applied Arts, London

• 2012 April

  Sofa, New York, Represented by Erskine, Hall and Coe, London

• 2012 March

  50/50 Matthew Harris/Cleo Mussi, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

• 2011 May

  Collect
  Saatchi Gallery, London, Represented by New Brewery Arts

• 2011 March

  Modern Masters
  Galerie Handwerk, International Trade Fair
   Munich

• 2011 February

  50/50 Matthew Harris/Cleo Mussi
  Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

• 2010 July

  Men of Cloth, Waterside Art Gallery, Sale

• 2009 Sept

  Taking Time. Craft and the Slow Revolution.
  Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

• 2009 May

  Stroud International Textile Festival.

• 2008 August

  Makers in the Bay, Cardiff, Joint show.

• 2008 March

  Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia U.S.A ,6th International Textile Biennale.

• 2007 March

  Fibre Art Now
  Gallery Handwerk, Munich

• 2006 May

  Traces and Echoes
  Stroud Textile Festival

• 2005 December

  Contemporary Applied Arts, London
  Christmas show.

• 2005 November

  Bilston Craft Gallery, West Midlands.
  Deconstruct Reconstruct.

• 2005 May

  Ozone Gallery Tokyo
  Meet the British: Crafts.

• 2005 March

  Axis Gallery Tokyo
  Structure, surface, shape. Crafts Council show.

• 2004 September

  Gallery Aoyama. Tokyo.

• 2004 May

  Rope Store Studio. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
  Making their mark.

• 2003 September

  Contemporary Applied Arts. London.
  ‘New Member Focus’.

• 2003 June

  Rope Store Studio. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
  ‘Fine Lines’.

• 2003 January

  England and Co, London.

• 2002 December

  Ormeau Baths Gallery, N. Ireland.
  International Textile Biannual.

• 2002 August

  The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
  Festival Show.

• 2002 June

  Victoria and Albert Museum, London ‘New Faces’,
  Selected Makers from The Crafts Council.

• 2001 September

  EGG Knightsbridge, London.
  Cloth and Drawings.

• 2001 June

  The Rope Store Gallery, Stroud.
  Works in Cloth.

• Commissions

• 2014

  Field Notes
  Collaboration with composer Howard Skempton.
  Commissioned by Craftspace, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Arts Alive.

• 2006-2008

  Colston Hall, Bristol
  New Extension Commission. Large Graphic score for wall.

• 2001 July

  Cheltenham International Music Festival.
  Stage backdrop.