Matt Arbuckle’s works are both map and land. They disorient our usual viewing modes as figure collapses to ground, abstraction with figuration, and memory with moment. As a diagram they are fractal – ever expanding and open. Each artwork highlights the dynamism of its materiality - the productive grott of a dry brush contrasted with a sealed slick surface. Alongside four large- scale paintings Arbuckle juxtaposes small works on paper which use colour and structure to trace and reveal abstract memories, delicately imprinting them onto the surface.
Matt Arbuckle’s works are both map and land. They disorient our usual viewing modes as figure collapses to ground, abstraction with figuration, and memory with moment. As a diagram they are fractal – ever expanding and open. Each artwork highlights the dynamism of its materiality - the productive grott of a dry brush contrasted with a sealed slick surface. Alongside four large- scale paintings Arbuckle juxtaposes small works on paper which use colour and structure to trace and reveal abstract memories, delicately imprinting them onto the surface.