Matt Davies

Manchester based artist Matt Davies [known for his artistic input on the Nine Black Alps records covers] is exhibiting a painting entitled “Golden Virginia” along side David Hancock’s current exhibition at The Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan. The last time Hancock and Davies collaborated was in “The Beautiful People” exhibition which toured across the UK In 2003. Recently Matt has enjoyed success in John Moores 24 (2006) at The Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

Previous exhibitions include “Why can’t everything be pretty” (March 2006) at Salford University where he was accepted onto The Artist Access to Colleges Scheme. This has enabled the artist to relate to the students. The main objective was to give the students a “taster” of what life is like after University, this was made possible with workshops and seminars.

Matt paints by inter-weaving vast amounts of colour with carefully selected images to form the structure of his large-scale paintings, using everyday resources to influence his work, from newspapers / magazines cuttings to personal photographs.

His earlier work is heavily influenced by children’s drawings; he particularly enjoys the confidence of younger children’s mark making. Matt has had many exhibitions around the North West including The Lowry Hotel 2005 Autumn Exhibition and Warsaw Projects (2003-06) and is looking forward to a solo exhibition at The Lowry Hotel in August 2007.