ABOUT ME
Matthew Teddy Bartlett (b. 2003, Somerset) is an artist currently studying at the Ruskin school of Art, Oxford University. He works across sculpture, print and an expanded 2d practice, his work is informed by an interest in poetry and his own writing.
His practice unfurls as vestiges which mediate between interior experience and a desire towards relationality, empathy and care. The self – in particular an interest in portraiture – intervenes with an oblique constellation of emblems, colours, materials and gestures, in turn navigating art as a site of connection to the world. Provisionality and the idea of the makeshift in his work interrogate formal classifications of drawing and sculpture, instead positing terms such as sketch or prop as unfinished and mutable forms. His practice oscillates between analogue and digital processes, often landing at complex anachronisms; a Nike trainer is overlayed with medieval land weaponary or a landscape drawing might exist as a digital scan. To this effect his refutes singular interpretations, he is excited by the possibility that his art depicts and encourages layered and chimerical perspectives on ideas of identity, compassion, love or art-making itself.
EXHIBITIONS
Dreaming so Sweetly… three person show with Aidana Orazgaliyeva (magdalen College 26’) and Sasha Hardy (Brasenose College 26’) at the crypt of St. Peter-in-the-East, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (2026).
Spin-dizzy, Aerial, solo show at the Dolphin Gallery St. John’s College, Oxford (2025).
Interim, group show with Ruskin 26’ cohort at Fusion Arts, Oxford (2025).
How Sad to Slide on Moonbeams, two person show with Eve Aspland (St Edmund Hall, 25’) at the Dolphin Gallery St. John’s College, Oxford (2024).
CONTACT ME
Instagram: @gundestrup_cauldron
Email: mattbartlettart@gmail.com
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