Matthew Bainbridge

CV

B. 1992, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL

Bainbridge's drawings provoke the superficiality of surface with imagined worlds and quasi-personal characters. Cartoonish landscapes are as deep as they are dumb, overly-saturated, and impossibly plastic. Collective longing is found within the drooping of a flower, and wistful boredom in the bending of a root; familiar, organic lifeforms, twisted into personhood by the wanting hand of the artist. Always present is an all-seeing moon—sometimes an eye, transfixed, unwaveringly—as omniscient as a god hanging luminous in the sky.

His works are reactions to in-the-moment emotions, processed and laboured over against the wider weight of the world.

Education:

2014 BA(Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, the Glasgow School of Art

Select Exhibitons:

2021Regnum Lúminis, Eve Leibe, London, UK (Online)
2021Group Show, Shrine, New York, NY (Online)
2019 While Supplies Last, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2019 GIFC Velvet Ropes, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY
2018 GIFC Wordlwide, L'Inconnue, Montréal, CA
2018 The Benefits of Being Under the Weather, Patriothall, Edinburgh, UK
2018 A Shallow Thing, The Number Shop, Edinburgh, UK
2017 Fever Dreams, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Do Like Do Like, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2016 Average Goods, Cass Art, Glasgow, UK
2015 Visions, Hoxton Arches, London, UK
2015 Fenix, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK
2015 Phoenix Bursary Exhibiton, Reid Building, Glasgow, UK
2015 Daddy's Got Muscles, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
2015 We Are One! , Drygate Brewery, Glasgow, UK
2014 Mouthfeel, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Fine Art Showcase, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK (in lieu of the Mackintosh Building fire)
2014 Well Hung, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2013 Et Al., Unit 3, SWG3, Glasgow, UK

Publications:

Here Magazine Issue 14
Elephant Magazine Issue 40
Archive 01 by Saint Maison
ArtMaze Magazine Issue 22
ArtMaze Magazine Issue 14

Residencies:

2018 Online residency with i.o.u.a.e

Awards:

2017 Hope Scott Trust Funding recipient
2014 Phoenix Bursary Award recipient, granted to 108 graduating students affected by the Mackintosh Building fire, 05/14

Co-Director of Embassy Gallery, 2016–2018

Founder of PaperView Auction, 2019–2022

Contact directly for available works

Contact:

matthewbainbridge92@gmail.com

@mattbainbridge