British Racing Green

The materials I use are mass produced, simple, familiar, cheap and readily available. Recently I have been using brown parcel tape. When I use materials I like to exploit their materiality, to use what they give me and let it guide the work. I like the viewer to be able to relate to the material, as I have during making, and to know its properties and limits thus giving an entry point into the work. I do not wish to fool or ‘outsmart’ the viewer with materials or process and I want the work to be accessible. I like to take materials and objects that we may come across and use every day, such as the tape, and use it in a way that brings new life and interest to it. I hope the work uses the material in a way that the viewer may never have envisaged

Recent works in brown tape play with the ideas of fragility, tension, instancy and their temporal nature. Each work is made for a specific time and/or place and is destroyed afterwards. The works are made solely from the chosen material; the brown tape forms the structure of the work, holds the work together and of course becomes its main aesthetic.



Contact: MattEnnals@aol.com