Saturday, 6 July 2013

Mathew Weir

Mathew Weir
Mathew Weir
Alison Jacques Gallery


Mathew Weir, Meloncholy (Detail) (Oil on canvas mounted on board, 35x50cm), 2012
Mathew Weir, Gathering Evidence (Oil on canvas mounted on board, 60.5x45.5cm), 2012 and Death and the Maiden (Oil on canvas mounted on board, 60x45cm), 2013
Mathew Weir, Death and the Abbot (Oil on canvas mounted on board, 90x60cm), 2013
Mathew Weir (born, 1977) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London (2004). He lives and works in London. In 2012 Alison Jacques Gallery published a Mathew Weir catalogue with an essay by Brian Dillon. Recent museum exhibitions include: Beyond Reality, British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2012); Passion Fruits Picked from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin (2010); Lebenslust & Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (2010); and Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass, KadE. Amersfoort (2009). Weir's oil painting Abattoir (2013) is currently in Made in Bow at the Nunnery Gallery, London, until 25 July 2013, and his work is in the group show Victoriana: The Art of Revival at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, from 7 September - 8 December 2013.

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