Matt's Gallery

02/09/2026

Imogen Stidworthy think I have a title for the show - excellent I love it opens 27 September pv 2-5pm 🌵r🌵k 🌵

28/08/2026

23/08/2026

Save the date 🌵r🌵k🌵

13/08/2026

On of my favorites of all time r 🌵k🌵🌵

11/08/2026

the ladder arrives for Imogen Stidworthy 🌵r🌵k🌵

11/08/2026

We started the Imogen Stidworthy install today for real 🌵r🌵k 🌵

10/08/2026

Following on from our last post with

This video show Deputy Director Tim Dixon and artist Douglas White moving the gallery’s cacti at SPACE studios, Haymerle Road 2021

10/08/2026

For our fourth monthly post introducing our trustees and asking them to delve into our archive, we meet Jes Fernie, Matt’s Gallery Chair.

Please introduce yourself, why are you a trustee at Matt’s Gallery?

I’m an independent curator and writer with big love for Matt’s Gallery. I was a trustee for four years before becoming Chair last year. The gallery has a very special place in the London art scene:
- Artists are at the heart of everything it does
- Robin, the director, describes it as an artwork
- It has a sensibility that chimes with my own – a DIY feel, a relaxed attitude to rules, a heightened sense of the importance of relationships and stories
I feel very useful as Chair.

What have you chosen from the archive and why?

🌵🌵🌵The cactus! It’s everywhere at Matt’s Gallery: on Robin’s shirt, in a massive pot by the window, on Instagram posts. But I had no idea of its provenance. We (Robin Klassnik, Tim Dixon, the new archivist Sarah Haylett and myself) rifled through the archive to find letters, private view cards, catalogues, contact sheets, photos and notes all relating to Hanna Łuczak’s one-week exhibition ‘Cactus’ at the gallery in November 1985…

Follow the link in our bio to read the full text
 
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Director’s Note: I feel that Łuczak’s combination of the invitation card and whitebook with the exhibition did exactly what they were intended to do and came together to constitute a work in their own right. She completely understood how they were meant to work together and what they were meant to do. 5 stars!

Images:
1-4 Fernie in the archive
1&3 with ‘Cactus’ invite card, 2 with whitebook
5 Łuczak at work with Jarosław Kozłowski at Robin’s house,1985, and 6 at Matt’s Gallery
7 detail of ‘Cactus’
8 a letter to Robin from Łuczak
9 press and listings announcement
10-11 Hannah Łuczak, ‘Cactus’, 1985, installation views at Matt’s Gallery, 10 charcoal drawing directly on the gallery wall, 11 cactus and cushions
12 Robin and Hannah clean the floor
13&14 detail of the installation, the word ‘Cactus’ hand painted on glass, in 1985 and present day
15 (see our next post)

06/08/2026

Last night at Matt's Gallery an array of colours collage paint and dance by Jo Bruton ( ten paintings conceptually tight and joyful ) we are now closed for the dry summer and will reopen in September with Imogen Stidworthy ( 🌵r🌵k🌵)fotos taken by various people 05 .07 .2026

31/07/2026

‘excess and understanding’, a performance by Anna Barham which was presented at Matt’s Gallery in June, is being broadcast on Resonance FM, Saturday 1 August, at 1 pm

‘excess and understanding’ is a performance text that confronts the gatekeepers of speech. Written through the mishearings of speech-to-text dictation, it asks “whose voice is sound and whose voice is noise?” Moving from women’s depiction as leaky vessels in classical literature to intimate queered archives of modern philosophy, the piece tracks how trauma overwrites the body, culminating in a breakdown where grief momentarily breaks through self-censorship.

Resonance FM, Saturday 1 August, 1-1.30 pm

Anna Barham Resonance 104.4FM