Matthew Spencer

Spencer is interested in how our world is represented to us through simulated images in the media and how these, in turn, form our comprehension of the world around us, basing his pieces on images from the media and the internet. His works are cynical of utopian notions surrounding our relationship with the natural world, effectively combining medium, process and aesthetics as the message. The MDF, household paint and painstakingly slow hand cutting process that he uses gives the work a raw abandoned aesthetic, creating scenes which depict gritty disenchanted visions of man-made structures and waste in woods and forests.