Burn some dust here
March 13th, 2010
I am now represented for animation projects by Rubber Studios 
Sodium Magazine
March 13th, 2010
I have some work featured in the second issue of Sodium Magazine, edited by Lois Pinto. Its rather nice.
http://www.sodiumzine.com/mags/two/
iMygrate Again
March 2nd, 2010
Follow the link below to see some photos and a video from Anteism’s iMygrate exhibition. My character is in there somewhere…
http://anteism.com/home/2010/02/24/imygrate-exhibition-of-character-art-design/
iMygrate Exhibition
February 18th, 2010
I have a character in the iMygrate exhibition which opens February 19th, 8:00pm at Olio Artists Co-operative / Gallery, Victoria, Canada. More details below…
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IMYGRATE IS A MIGRATION OF ARTWORKS. Artists from Canada, USA, Germany, Portugal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Argentina, Israel, Brazil, Australia, India, Netherlands,Croatia, Sweden and Italy Send Their Artwork On A Road Trip Across Canada. Exhibition Opening February 19th.
In the Summer of 2007, Anteism sent out a call for submissions to artists from around the world to submit small (letter size) character based artworks. These character artworks would then be distributed across the 2nd largest country in the world.
iMygrate will document and showcase the characters that went on this voyage through original artworks & photographs. There will also be an interactive multimedia display to highlight the trail that these characters took. As a companion to the show and to document the project a publication will be created by Anteism Publishing and will be available at the exhibition and online through their website.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION: Opening February 19th, 2010 • 8:00pm @ Olio Artists Co-operative / Gallery Visit www.anteism.com for info & gallery hours. Admission $1.00 donated to Fisgard Mural Concern.
GALLERY INFORMATION: Olio Artists Co-operative / Gallery 614 1/2 Fisgard Street, Victoria BC, V8W 1R6 www.oliocooperative.wordpress.com
Runcible
January 6th, 2010
I have just finished a new series of drawings which place Edward Lear’s nonsense word “runcible” within various disparate visual contexts. Check them out on my website here…
http://matt-lee.com/index.php?/select-projects/runcible/
“Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear in 1871. As with all neologisms, Lear’s “runcible” has no prior etymological history which can be traced. When Lear uses this word it forms a semantic gap within the poetry which can never be satisfactorily resolved by the reader – Though the word seems to suggest a meaning, we have no idea what. The nonsensicality of this word is further compounded when used by Lear through various texts as an adjective to describe disparate nouns…a runcible spoon, raven, cat, wall, hat and goose.
This ongoing series explores Lear’s “runcible” through a variety of disparate situations, scenarios, possible and impossible visual contexts. Through this continual process of contextual shifting the word suggests a multitude of meanings which conflict or contradict. The word “runcible” becomes an enigmatic mark which cannot be categorized or defined – “runcible” means both this and that and neither this nor that. The result is nonsense.
Creative Review: The Indian Matchbox Monograph
November 26th, 2009
For Creative Review subscribers, the December Monograph features around 20 pages of my Indian Matchbox collection. Here is the blurb written for the intro…
Matchboxes from the Subcontinent. Walking around Bangalore city where I live you will come across matchboxes everywhere. Cheap and disposable, they litter the highways and footpaths, and are scattered around any roadside chai stall, cigarette kiosk or dhaba.
The first matchbox I came across featured an illustration of a killer whale with a caption that read ‘dolphin’. I found this inaccuracy quite amusing. My first connection with these matchboxes was that aside from being great designs, they seemed quite random and they made me smile.
In my travels across India I have collected over 250 matchboxes. Each design has come to signify a personal memory. Collectively, the visible scars of the battered boxes tell a story, mapping the places I have been, the people I have met and the experiences I have had.
The visuals that adorn this collection include historical and religious iconography, Indian pop culture, appropriated western imagery, mundane objects, and various animals. For me, as an outsider, the disparate juxtapositions created through this series of designs have come to encapsulate quite perfectly the heterogeneous and hybrid visual culture of modern India. - Matt Lee
City One Minute @ Lumineus Amersfoort
October 29th, 2009
A one minute video sketch I made in collaboration with Smriti Mehra for cityoneminutes.org has been selected for a presentation at Lumineus Amersfoort. From 11 November to 30 December 2009 the old town of Amersfoort, Netherlands, will be illuminated accompanied by a city tour along 10 contemporary art works/multimedia installations in public space. The One Minutes will show a selection of videos projected on the windows of two old houses. The locations are Lange Gracht and Havik. Lange Gracht can be seen on 10 November during the opening but the projection at location Havik will start only on 27 November.
The opening of Lumineus Amersfoort is Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 16.30 hrs.
More information is available on www.lumineusamersfoort.nl
Our one minute video sketch selected for this festival was shot between 6-7am at Bangalore city’s central flower market. Stills from this sketch can be seen below…
Character Designs
October 25th, 2009
From a series of rather cutesy character design drawings I was commissioned to do this week…
