Gallery Number One

26th August 2010

Matthew Knight

Matthew Knight was born in Cambridge (England), raised in Lahore (Pakistan) from 4 years old until he was 13, suffered growing pains as a teenager in Belfast (Northern Ireland) throughout his 20s he kept traveling all over Europe and has now ended up back in sunny Belfast. Travelling so much has left him feeling more settled when somewhere foreign.
Over the years he met the oddest and most interesting characters, seen and experienced some bizarre sights, been bombarded with way too many different beliefs and ideals, and to end it all eaten and smelt God knows what.

Frankly its confusing, chaotic and complicated trying to make sense of it all. All of these experiences go into his paintings. His characters and scenes are bursting with crazy colours and complicated detail drawing influences from all sorts of artistic disciplines, Islamic, Celtic, Aboriginal, Pointillism, Lowbrow, Comics, etc...
He works mostly in Acrylic with collage on all sorts of found surfaces. Matthew is an up and coming artist to watch out for. He has a degree in Fine Applied Arts and has exhibited in Belfast, Amsterdam and now Dublin.