Jack talks to the artist Matthew Cowan. A New Zealand artist now living in Berlin and Helsinki.
In this episode Matthew becomes the interviewer and Jack is the interviewee. In March of last year Matthew visited Jacks studio to talk to jack about his practice as part of his research towards a PHD thesis. To emphasise the collaborative and reciprocal process of creativity, Matthew asked Jack to produce a mask out of a handkerchief. The conversation grew out of both artists mutual interest in folk art and folk story.
Matthews work references traditional European customs, playing with the inherent strangeness of the continued popularity of long established folk customs in a contemporary world.
He has shown his work in major institutions across Europe and internationally. Recent shows have included: Wilderness Makes This World, Seinajoki, Kunsthalle, Seinajoki, Finland, 2020; The Scream of the Strawbear, Kunsthalle, Geissen, Germany, 2019; Para Field notes, Hyppolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
Please follow him on Instagram @matthewcowan and check out his work at https://www.matthewcowan.net.
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Music by Richard Waddell, @vinyl_richie_9000