Residencies
Swansea Museum ResidencyMatthew Thompson
04 August - 26 August 2015
Mission Gallery are working in partnership with Swansea Museum to create space for an artist in resident to explore and develop their work in response to the Museum's photographic archive for artistic research.
The chosen artist for this residency is Matthew Thompson, a BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts graduate from the Swansea College of Art,University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Highly commended for his degree show work Mission Gallery felt that this residency would be beneficial to his practice.
His work represents a personal pursuit of significance within the vernacular, the everyday. By photographing the world around him, everyday movements and engagements serve as means to form a narrative; highlighting poignant moments, reminding - to quote Barthes - of what has been. As a photographer, this relationship with the transient becomes a form of meditation. Responding to curiosity with little conscious contemplation involved, he takes an intuitive approach at the time of photographing. In subsequent editing and sequencing, he embraces formality. The images exist in the moment they took place - interested only in the atmosphere that emerges.
