Matt Ellwood: Taste the Good Times
26 February, 2013 - 21 April, 2013
Master Bedroom, Boardroom & Little Gallery
Matt Ellwood, Taste the Good Times (2006), digital print on dibond
In 2004 Matt Ellwood was the recipient of the Wallace Arts Trust Development Award, which included a 3-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. In 2011 Ellwood entered the Wallace Art Awards again, winning the Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award, including a 3-month residency at the Altes Spital Cultural Center in Solothurn, Switzerland. Taste the Good Times is a survey of Ellwood’s artistic practice in the seven year period between his residencies. It consists of over 25 key works that cover the range of his appropriation-based methodologies, from hand crafted sculptures that appear machine produced, referencing toys and merchandising, to print imagery that has been subtly altered and digitally reworked or translated into highly rendered charcoal drawings.