"Born in Scotland, Matt grew up in Wiltshire and then moved to Medway. A self-taught artist, he works according to the Remodernist Manifesto written in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thompson. He likes to invoke a sense of classicism and modernity in his work by re-using existing objects. Adopting a contemporary approach to subject matter and style, his compositions are often classical. This is done to emphasise the intrinsic link between man's past, present and future. He has been painting in Medway for about ten years and has just embarked on a Fine Art degree at the Ashford School of Art and Design"
from 'Made in Medway' published 2007
email: mattbrayarts@yahoo.co.uk
myspace: www.myspace.com/artnowuk
deviant art: mattbray-remodernist.deviantart.com
PAINTING
= Featured in 'Made in Medway';
art book profiling professional artists living in Medway
(www.madeinmedway.com)
(2007)
= Live painting at
'The Getaway Beach Resort', Goa (winter 2006)
= Cover artist for Mung Being Issue #8 "the freedom issue"
(www.mungbeing.com/issue_8.html)
= Recognised as the first
'individual remodernist artist' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remodernism)
PHOTOGRAPHY
= Nikinis Beachwear shoot (Elle New York Magazine
2006)
= Official Photographer for award winning project: ‘Chatham
Vines’ including 180 page book of the photographs (2005-2006)
(http://www.john-newling.com/publications/)
= Documented Billy Childish
exhibition and Billy Childish Big Draw event for Francis
Knight (www.francisknight.co.uk)
(2006)
= Contributed photographs for book ‘The 1st Medway
Independent Arts Festival’ - Urban Fox Press (2005)
= Contributed photographs for council commissioned film: ‘Portrait in Time’ (2004)