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Matthew Harris makes work that employs painting, cutting and hand stitching. It is concerned primarily with abstract imagery and the translation of drawn marks into cloth. By making work that is pieced, patched and assembled, he aims to create pieces that explore repetition, pattern and the disrupted or dissonant journey of line and image across and through the surface of cloth.

Matthew Harris has exhibited widely throughout the U.K, Europe, the United States and Japan. He has work in the World Economics Forum Collection, the Crafts Council Collection, The Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery and the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, U.S.A, as well as numerous private collections.

In 2014 he collaborated with the British composer Howard Skempton and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on \u2018Field Notes\u2019, an Arts Council funded, U.K concert tour. In 2010 he was short listed for the first Arts Foundation Award for Textile Art and in 2009 completed \u2018Scorched\u2019 a ten metre long Graphic Score for the newly refurbished Bristol Beacon Concert Hall, Bristol.

Matthew Harris lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Commissions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/td>\u2018Field Notes\u2019 Touring collaborative project with composer Howard Skempton Craftspace and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/td>\u2018Scorched\u2019 Large Graphic Score for wall
New Extension Commission. Bristol Beacon, Bristol U.K<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>Stage backdrop. Cheltenham International Music Festival<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Selected Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/td>\u2018Forms of the Never Was\u2019 Taste Contemporary, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>\u2018Cut, Shift, Repeat\u2019 Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
\u2018A Table of Preparations\u2019 Alice Black Gallery, London<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>\u2018Shades of Winter\u2019 Taste Contemporary, Geneva
\u2018Seven\u2019 Alice Black Gallery, London<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>\u2018Odd and Even\u2019 Taste Contemporary, Maison Louis Carre, France
\u2018Future Fossils\u2019 Alice Black Gallery, London<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>\u2018Matthew Harris Paul March. Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
\u2018Five Cubed\u2019 Taste Contemporary, Geneva., Switzerland
\u2018Gordan Baldwin & Matthew Harris\u2019 Bluecoat Display centre, Liverpool, U.K<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>\u2018Works on paper\u2019 Erskine Hall & Coe, London<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>\u2018Tim Sayer Collection\u2019 Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, U.K
\u2018Field Notes\u2019 11 Spitalfields, London<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>Matthew Harris Paper & Cloth, Tim Rowan ceramics Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris<\/td><\/tr>
2013<\/td>Collect. Saatchi Gallery, London
Represented by Contemporary Applied Arts. London
Matthew Harris work on paper, Tim Rowan ceramics. Erskine, Hall and Coe, London
\u201850\\50. Matthew Harris & Cleo Mussi\u2019 Russell Coates Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth, U.K<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>Galerie Handwerk Munich
SOFA, Chicago Represented by Erskine, Hall and Coe, London
SOFA, New York Represented by Erskine, Hall and Coe, London
50\\50. Matthew Harris & Cleo Mussi Contemporary Applied Arts, London<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>50\\50. Matthew Harris & Cleo Mussi Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, U.K
\u2018Modern Masters\u2019 Galerie Handwerk, Munich<\/td><\/tr>
2009<\/td>\u2018Taking Time Craft and the Slow Revolution\u2019 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery U.K<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/td>\u2018Fibre Art Now\u2019. Gallery Handwerk Munich<\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>\u2018Meet the British: Crafts.\u2019 Ozone Gallery Tokyo
Structure, surface, shape. Axis Gallery Tokyo<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>\u2018After Gruppen\u2019 Drawings and Cloth. Cheltenham International Music Festival, Cheltenham, U.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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