Mathew Weir

Mathew Weir, born in Ipswich, England in 1977, is an English artist. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London.
Work
Weir is best known for fusing imagery of ceramic figurines with his archive of landscapes to create complex narratives with exquisite yet melancholic auras.
He has said both his paintings and sculptures "formulate visual ideas where words or language may fail, or seem insufficient",.
By using fragments of pre-existing imagery to make his oil paintings. He draws on a specific tradition of 18th and 19th century decorative art like the ceramic figurine as well as more culturally loaded objects..
Weir's paintings often reference the excess of death-obsessed, overwrought Victoriana with red-faced Victorians and peculiar penitents rise up from among the writhing foliage in his paintings.
Exhibitions
In 2012 Alison Jacques Gallery published a Mathew Weir catalogue with an essay by Brian Dillon.
Recent museum exhibitions include: Beyond Reality, British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2012); Passion Fruits Picked from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin (2010); Lebenslust & Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (2010); and Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass, KadE. Amersfoort (2009).
In 2016 he exhibited in group show Nature Morte, Contemporary Artists Reinvigorating the Still Life, Konsthallen Bohuslän Museum, Sweden.
He has also exhibited in group shows in Hå gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway; Beers Contemporary, London; FLAG Art Foundation, New York City; The Nunnery, London; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Zwingenberger, me Collectors Room, Berlin; Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria; KadE, Amersfoort, Netherlands; and the Royal College of Art, London.
Awards
*2013-2014: Artist in Residence, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
*2004: Madame Tussauds Art Award, Stephenson Harwood Painting Purchase Prize.
* 2003: Paule Vezelay Travel Award
* 2002: Stanley Smith Scholarship; Royal College of Art

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