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Matthew Richardson
Lives and works in Norwich, UK. Studied at Central St. Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (Practice-based PhD)
Exhibitions
2026 ‘Slip’ Oceans Apart, Salford. 2026 ‘InProximity’ EEAF, Norwich Castle & Art Gallery, Norwich. 2025 ‘The Garden Comes Inside’, Caroline Fisher Projects, Bolwick Hall, Norfolk. ‘Five Times Five’, Acme Glassyard Studios, London. 2025 ‘Pylos’, curated by Fresh Salad Art, Electro Studios, St Leonards. 2025 ‘Laying The Table For Nothing’, Wolterton Hall, Norfolk. 2025 ‘Socially Distanced’, Wellington Yard, Liverpool. 2025 ‘Irving Open 2025’ Irving Gallery, Oxford. 2025 ‘RA Summer Show’, Royal Academy, London. 2025 ‘Soft Verge’, They Come They Sit, They Go, London. 2025 ‘Process’, Partnership Editions (Online). 2025 ‘Pedestal’, 19a Gallery, Brighton. 2025 ‘Falling Faintly Faintly Falling’, They Come They Sit They Go, London. 2024 ‘All That Glitters’, Ubicua Gallery, London. 2024 ‘Flat Earth’ (with Mark Scott-Wood), The Assembly House, Norwich. 2024 ‘Make Yourself at Home’, Hweg, Penzance, Cornwall. 2024 ‘Plates with Purpose’, Messums West, Wiltshire. 2024 ‘As Self As Self As’, Asylum Studios, Suffolk. 2023 ‘Safehouse 2’, curated by Jagger & Johnson, Peckham Festival, London. 2023 ‘Making Good’, Kingston University Archive, Kingston. 2022 ‘Slippery Material’, Caroline Fisher Projects, Norwich. 2022 ‘A Plot, Hatched by Two’, curated by Robyn Graham, Warlbling Collective, London. 2021 ‘A Generous Space’, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings. 2021 Assembly House Open, Norwich. 2020 ‘Language’, curated by Loosenart, Millepiani, Rome. 2019 'Another Land: Experimental Visualisations of Place’, Kingston Museum, Kingston. 2018 ‘Evolution', Hockney Gallery, RCA, London. 2017 ‘Strange Pilgrimage: Elements of a Narrative' (with Emily Mitchell, Leah Fusco and Mireille Fauchon), The Beaney, Canterbury. 2017 ‘Members Show', selected by Andy Holden, Outpost, Norwich. 2016 ‘Adaptation’ (with Jackie Chettur and Gerbrand Burger), Transition Gallery, London. 2015 ‘Critical Messages', Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth. 2015 ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’, NUA Gallery, Norwich. 2013 ‘Library of Lost Books’, Library of Birmingham. 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff. 2011 ‘Imagined Machines’, TestBed space, Oriel Davies, Powys. 2009 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala. 2008 'Conduits, Schemes & Spheres', George Rodger Gallery, Kent. 2008 ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’, g39, Cardiff. 2008 ‘The Rise and Progress of Superstition’, Brecknock Art Gallery, Powys. 2006 ‘Surface’, Oriel Davies, Powys. 2005 ‘Begining, Middle & End’, g39, Cardiff.
Illustration
Commissions across print, publishing and web, including projects with the V&A , ENO, Poetry Society and the British Library. Books and covers for Penguin, Folio and Harper Collins. Editorial images for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine and Tricycle. Represented by Heart for illustration work.
Publications
2023 ‘Good’ Hoof & Claw Press 2021 ‘Deep Ends’ (edited by Rick McGrath), Terminal Press 2021 ‘To Call’ No. 14 PSW Gallery (Petra Schulze-Wollgast) 2020 'Living British Cinema' Garageland 23 'Aphrodite 80 (Unfinished)' 2016 'Remake Remodel' Garageland 20 2016 'Myths of the Near Future’ Varoom 32 2014 ‘Contradictions of Style' Varoom 26, AOI 2014 ‘Visible Folly’, Folio Journal 2013 'Library of Lost Books' Birmingham Library. 2012 'The Authorial Illustrator', Atlantic Press 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff 2011 Printmaking Today, ‘First Folio’ Vol. 20
Awards
2016-23 AHRC (LDoc) funding for a practice-based PhD, developing images and objects from archival fragments and waste, Kingston School of Art 2012 V&A Illustration Award, London 2011 Folio/HOI Award 2010 V&A Illustration Award, London 2008 NAN New Collaborations Bursary, a-n, The Artists Information Co. 2007 AOI Silver ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson 2006 AOI Gold ‘In Evil Hour’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2005 AOI Bronze ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teaching
2018-19 Royal College of Art 2012-19 Norwich University of the Arts 2007-12 Oriel Davies Gallery, Design 2009-10 Central St Martins 2008 UCA Maidstone 2004-06 Hereford College of Arts
Conferences
2024 ‘Experimental Archives’, Kingston School of Art. 2017 'JG Ballard and Making', Birmingham City University. 2015 'Adaptation and the Metropolis', University of London. 2014 ‘ A Palimpsest of Foolery’, ‘The Itinerant Illustrator’, Srishti School of Art, Bangalore. 2010 'The Untamed Tiger', University College Falmouth.
Email: ︎ Instagram: @MatthewRubble @matthewrichardsonartist
Matthew Richardson
Lives and works in Norwich, UK. Studied at Central St. Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (Practice-based PhD)
Exhibitions
2026 ‘Slip’ Oceans Apart, Salford. 2026 ‘InProximity’ EEAF, Norwich Castle & Art Gallery, Norwich. 2025 ‘The Garden Comes Inside’, Caroline Fisher Projects, Bolwick Hall, Norfolk. ‘Five Times Five’, Acme Glassyard Studios, London. 2025 ‘Pylos’, curated by Fresh Salad Art, Electro Studios, St Leonards. 2025 ‘Laying The Table For Nothing’, Wolterton Hall, Norfolk. 2025 ‘Socially Distanced’, Wellington Yard, Liverpool. 2025 ‘Irving Open 2025’ Irving Gallery, Oxford. 2025 ‘RA Summer Show’, Royal Academy, London. 2025 ‘Soft Verge’, They Come They Sit, They Go, London. 2025 ‘Process’, Partnership Editions (Online). 2025 ‘Pedestal’, 19a Gallery, Brighton. 2025 ‘Falling Faintly Faintly Falling’, They Come They Sit They Go, London. 2024 ‘All That Glitters’, Ubicua Gallery, London. 2024 ‘Flat Earth’ (with Mark Scott-Wood), The Assembly House, Norwich. 2024 ‘Make Yourself at Home’, Hweg, Penzance, Cornwall. 2024 ‘Plates with Purpose’, Messums West, Wiltshire. 2024 ‘As Self As Self As’, Asylum Studios, Suffolk. 2023 ‘Safehouse 2’, curated by Jagger & Johnson, Peckham Festival, London. 2023 ‘Making Good’, Kingston University Archive, Kingston. 2022 ‘Slippery Material’, Caroline Fisher Projects, Norwich. 2022 ‘A Plot, Hatched by Two’, curated by Robyn Graham, Warlbling Collective, London. 2021 ‘A Generous Space’, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings. 2021 Assembly House Open, Norwich. 2020 ‘Language’, curated by Loosenart, Millepiani, Rome. 2019 'Another Land: Experimental Visualisations of Place’, Kingston Museum, Kingston. 2018 ‘Evolution', Hockney Gallery, RCA, London. 2017 ‘Strange Pilgrimage: Elements of a Narrative' (with Emily Mitchell, Leah Fusco and Mireille Fauchon), The Beaney, Canterbury. 2017 ‘Members Show', selected by Andy Holden, Outpost, Norwich. 2016 ‘Adaptation’ (with Jackie Chettur and Gerbrand Burger), Transition Gallery, London. 2015 ‘Critical Messages', Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth. 2015 ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’, NUA Gallery, Norwich. 2013 ‘Library of Lost Books’, Library of Birmingham. 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff. 2011 ‘Imagined Machines’, TestBed space, Oriel Davies, Powys. 2009 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala. 2008 'Conduits, Schemes & Spheres', George Rodger Gallery, Kent. 2008 ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’, g39, Cardiff. 2008 ‘The Rise and Progress of Superstition’, Brecknock Art Gallery, Powys. 2006 ‘Surface’, Oriel Davies, Powys. 2005 ‘Begining, Middle & End’, g39, Cardiff.
Illustration
Commissions across print, publishing and web, including projects with the V&A , ENO, Poetry Society and the British Library. Books and covers for Penguin, Folio and Harper Collins. Editorial images for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine and Tricycle. Represented by Heart for illustration work.
Publications
2023 ‘Good’ Hoof & Claw Press 2021 ‘Deep Ends’ (edited by Rick McGrath), Terminal Press 2021 ‘To Call’ No. 14 PSW Gallery (Petra Schulze-Wollgast) 2020 'Living British Cinema' Garageland 23 'Aphrodite 80 (Unfinished)' 2016 'Remake Remodel' Garageland 20 2016 'Myths of the Near Future’ Varoom 32 2014 ‘Contradictions of Style' Varoom 26, AOI 2014 ‘Visible Folly’, Folio Journal 2013 'Library of Lost Books' Birmingham Library. 2012 'The Authorial Illustrator', Atlantic Press 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff 2011 Printmaking Today, ‘First Folio’ Vol. 20
Awards
2016-23 AHRC (LDoc) funding for a practice-based PhD, developing images and objects from archival fragments and waste, Kingston School of Art 2012 V&A Illustration Award, London 2011 Folio/HOI Award 2010 V&A Illustration Award, London 2008 NAN New Collaborations Bursary, a-n, The Artists Information Co. 2007 AOI Silver ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson 2006 AOI Gold ‘In Evil Hour’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2005 AOI Bronze ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teaching
2018-19 Royal College of Art 2012-19 Norwich University of the Arts 2007-12 Oriel Davies Gallery, Design 2009-10 Central St Martins 2008 UCA Maidstone 2004-06 Hereford College of Arts
Conferences
2024 ‘Experimental Archives’, Kingston School of Art. 2017 'JG Ballard and Making', Birmingham City University. 2015 'Adaptation and the Metropolis', University of London. 2014 ‘ A Palimpsest of Foolery’, ‘The Itinerant Illustrator’, Srishti School of Art, Bangalore. 2010 'The Untamed Tiger', University College Falmouth.
Email: ︎ Instagram: @MatthewRubble @matthewrichardsonartist
