Mathew McWilliams

b.1973, Vancouver, Canada
Lives and works in Paris, France

Mathew McWilliams repurposes photography to produce unique objects outside the traditional formats of photographic representation. Through a sensitive handling of both material and medium, he is able to disorient the viewer’s way of interacting with the real, providing an interesting relationship between image and its support.

McWilliams work has been shown internationally including exhibitions in Europe, The United Kingdom, Canada, the US and Australia. Notable exhibitions include the group show Like-Minded curated by the artist Micah Lexier at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg and Phantasmagoria at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. This was part three in a significant series of exhibitions about Vancouver Photography’s notable history and its future. The previous two show’s featured work by Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace. He was invited to show in Puglia Italy at Exchiesetta, a space established by Arte Povera artist Pino Pascale. McWilliams has received a Canada Council artists grant for a residency at Fabriano Paper Museum in Italy to produce the Fabriano colour series. He has shown with Chalk Horse Gallery since 2012.

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Artworks

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Duel #8

Duel #16

Duel #3

Duel #13

Duel #10

Duel #25

Duel #19

Duel #1

Duel #14

Duel #1

Duel #4

Duel #5

Duel #6

Duel #7

Duel #3

Duel #2

Duel #6

Duel #11

Duel #4

Duel #1

Edges (Magenta II)

Untitled (Underlay blue-black)

Untitled (Underlay magenta)

Untitled (Underlay blue)

Untitled (Underlay dark green)

Untitled (Underlay magenta)

Untitled (Underlay light blue)

Untitled (Underlay yellow)

Untitled (Underlay light blue)

Underlay

Underlay #2

Underlay #3

Underlay #4

Underlay #5

Underlay #6

Underlay #7

Underlay #8

'Fabriano Collage (Orange)'

Fabriano Collage (Orange)

Fabriano Collage (Light blue) 2017

Fabriano Collage (Magenta)

Fabriano Collage (Green)

Fabriano Collage - masked (Orange)

Fabriano Collage - masked (Blue-black)

Fabriano Collage - masked (Light blue)

Fabriano Collage (Black)

Pulp

Pulp #2

Pulp #3

Pulp #4

Pulp #5

Pulp #6

Pulp #7

Pulp #8

After the Storm

After the Storm #2

After the Storm #3

Tinted Headstrike #11

Tinted Headstrike #14

Tinted Headstrike #12

Tinted Headstrike #2

Reliefs

Exploded Transformations: New Sculpture

Relief (Rivodutri Pale Blue)

Relief (Rivodutri Red)

Relief (Rivodutri Grey)

Relief (Rivodutri Green)

Sculpture 2 (Gabbo)

Sculpture 5 (Gabbo)

Sculpture 1 (Balla)

Onto Itself

Three Quarter Passes

Paper work (Blue) #8

Paper work (Blue) #6

Paper Works 3 (Blue)

Negative Folds and Lines #1

Negative Folds and Lines #2

Negative Folds and Lines #3

Colour on colour

Paper Works (blue)

Three Quarter Passes (Paper)

'Negative Folds and Lines #3'

Reliefs #5

Reliefs #2

Reliefs #4

CV

Solo Exhibitions

2020

'Duel', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2019

'Underlay', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2018

'Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome', Sant’Andrea degli Armeni, Taranto Macaulay & Co Fine Art, Vancouver

2017

'Pulp', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2016

'After the Storm', Chalk Horse, Sydney

'Ex-Chiesetta', Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italy

2015

'Mathew McWilliams: Headstrikes', Macaulay & Co Fine Art, Vancouver

2014

'Inks', Thorpe’s Studio, Toronto

'Reliefs', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2013

'Possible Impressions', Rivodutri, Italy

2012

'Onto Itself', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2011

'As It Is', Pharmacy, Montasola, Rome

2010

Recent Work, Artroom5, Adelaide

2005

'Black Ground', Galleria Bertanicinque, Rome

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

'Rubble: a matter of time' (curated by Juliana Engberg), Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

2019

Sydney Contemporary with Chalk Horse, Sydney

2018

'Group Show', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2016

'Natur Elementari', Palazzo Cesi Acquasparta Italy

Josh Thorpe, Jennifer Murphy, Mathew McWilliams: Castello di Conversano, Puglia, Italy

2014

A proposition by Aurélien Mole, Working Forest - Lower level Mathew McWilliams, Possible Impressions: Galerie Dohyanglee, Paris

2013

Ceci n’est pas: Art Between France and Los Angeles - Courtesy at Here is Elsewhere Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Isabelle Le Normand.

Macquarie University Art Gallery, Australia

Exploded Transformations. New Sculpture: Addison Marshal And Mathew McWilliams, Chalk Horse Gallery Sydney

2012

Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by Reid Shier and Helga Pakasaar

2011

Like-Minded, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg. Curated by Micah Lexier

Under the Willow, Flinders Gallery, Sydney. Curated by Virginia Wilson

Photographic Objects: Aurélien Mole, Roxanne Borujerdi, Mathew McWilliams, Graanmarkt 13, Antwerp.

Whatever Works, db Project, Sydney. Curated by Christopher Hanrahan

2010

Unity, One of Kind, Sydney

2009

Revelation 3, Foire de Photographie Contemporaine, Paris

Group Show, Gallerie Basia Embiricos, Paris

2008

Paper Works, Plowman Street, Sydney

2006

4C SightSeeing Tour, Saatchi and Saatchi, London

2003

Sebastian Bertrand Studio, Geneva

2002

Atelier Sonia Burel, Paris

1999

Concordia Space, Montreal

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Bibliography

Luca Arnaudo, "From photography to painting and back" (interview with Mathew McWilliams), Artribune, March 20, 2020

Tania Doropoulos, “Mathew McWilliams: Reliefs (Possible Impressions)”, Catalogue Essay 2014

Luca Arnaudo, “On Theaetetus, McWilliams, Some Rubbings and Wonder In A Small Sabinian Village”

Dude Magazine Online July 22, 2013

Presentation House Fundraiser Auction

September Issue No./1 2012

Mitch Speed “Phantasmagoria” First published in Issue 150

Frieze Magazine October 2012

Mitch Speed “Phantasmagoria”

Frieze Magazine Online October 2012

Cayley Malo, “Phantasmagoria: Group Exhibition at Presentation House”,

Decoy Magazine, July 3, 2012

Aaron Peck, “Phantasmagoria at Presentation House”,

Akimbo, June 12, 2012

Editors: Stephanie Rebick and Emmy Lee, “Phantasmagoria”,

Here and Elsewhere, July 3 2012

Ashley Mclellan, “Phantasmagoria: Images Unveiled”

Canadian Art Online, June 28, 2012

Erika Thorkelson “Phantasmagoria”

Samual Gassmann “Photographic Objects: Aurelian Mole, Roxanne Borujerdi, Mathew McWilliams” Graanmarkt 13, Antwerp.

Exhibition Catalogue 2011

Richard Rhodes editor Canadian Art Magazine. “Josh Thorpe and Mathew McWilliams: Friends in Art.”

Canadian Art Online, audio interview, March 7, 2011

Josh Thorpe, “Notes on the Work of Mathew McWilliams”

Essay 2009

Luca Arnaudo, “Still Art, Cold Aura; Notes on Mathew McWilliams”

EQUIPéCO, Issue #21, 2009. pg 58-59

Samual Gassmann, “4C; Sightseeing Tour”, Saatchi & Saatchi London.

Exhibition Catalogue 2006

Luca Arnaudo “Blackground” Catalogue essay 2005

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Mathew McWilliams

Artworks

CV

Duel

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

Underlay

Compound

Pulp

After the Storm

Reliefs

Exploded Transformations: New Sculpture

Onto Itself