Matt Gale
I am a British born artist who grew up in Southern California and trained as a biologist before completing a MA in Fine Art. I make sculpture & installation that queers perceptions of what is natural or normal & explores processes that are both creative & destructive. My work frequently explores hybrid states and entanglement.
Check out my Instagram for documentation of my process and experiments.
Exhibitions
Rhymes with Orange, Fold Gallery, London, June-July 2022
'Hybrids' - collaboration with Rajni Perera for Traveller, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, June-August 2022
HYPERphage (collab. Sahjan Kooner), (ASTRAL VILLAGE) slooooowwww, Artcore Gallery Feb-March 2022
First Outing, (curator), Abingdon Studios and the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Sept-Oct 2021
Beyond Heterotopia: Flags for Queertopia, Margate Pride, The Margate School, August 2021
Clifford Chance London Pride, June - September 2021
Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, May 2021
Rituals, Tablespoon Theatre, October 2020
Queer Contemporaries, curated by Short Supply, Air Gallery, Manchester August-September 2020
The Vulnerabilities of Queer Bodies, Balaclava.q, June 2020
Pack Midlands online show, May 2020
Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, Rose Lipman Building, London, March 2020
Coventry Biennial, The Row, 5 October - 24 November 2019
Summer Camp Showcase, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, September 2019
The Future We Want, Naturally (solo show), Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton, May 2019
Blender 3 (Soup V), Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, April 2019
FLUX, Vittoria Street Gallery, BSJ, April - May 2019
Next Wave Associate Showcase, RBSA, March - May 2019
Blender 2 (Soup V), Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, March 2019
Blender 1 (Soup V), Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, February 2019
Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, Rose Lipman Building, London, October 2018
Swop Shop, Selfridge's Birmingham, September 2018
Next Wave, RBSA, Birmingham, September 2018
ESP Show Your Stuff, Eastside Projects, Birmingham August 2018
Swop Shop, Tate Liverpool, June 2018
Transitions, Vittoria Street Gallery, BSJ, April - May 2018
Coventry Biennial, CET Building, 6-22 October 2017
AIR Showcase, Vittoria Street Gallery, BSJ, October 2017
Fluid Festival, Birmingham, 23-24 September 2017
Margaret, MA Degree show, Birmingham School of Art, 1-7 September 2017
Regeneration, Artist Workhouse, Warwickshire, June 2017
PULPA III exhibition, RK Burt Gallery, London, April 2017
CHAS exhibition at Moseley Exchange, Birmingham, August 2016
Objects of Inspiration, In-Public, Birmingham, May 2016
Art Week Exeter, Preston Street Union, Exeter, May 2016
Beyond Borders/GAP Arts Project exhibition, April 2016
Cannon Hill Art School exhibition, mac birmingham, July 2015
Residencies/Projects
UKNA, New Producers - curating mini-residency and First Outing, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, August - October 2021
Queerly Made - Curatorial project with Daniel Fountain, May 2020 - present
Materials Club, STEAMhouse, Birmingham March 2020 - present
EOP Crit Club, Eastside Projects, November 2019 - March 2020
BOM Fellowship, Birmingham Open Media, September 2019/20
Expanded Studio residency, Eastside Projects, August/September 2019
Dirty Practice: Don't Wash your Hands, Wolverhampton School of Art, July 2019
MA Fine Art Symposium, Birmingham School of Art, June 2019
Blender residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, February - April 2019
Summer Lodge residency, Nottingham Trent University, July 2018
STEAMhouse, Birmingham, June 2018 - present
Birmingham Crit Group, co-organiser, February 2018 - present.
Artist in Residence, Birmingham School of Jewellery, MA Programme, 2017/18
Visiting Artist, STEAM project (Birmingham Open Media) 2017/18
Grasslands residency, Birmingham, June 2016
Micro residency, Chisenhale Studios, London, May 2016
Artist Lab (Simon Poulter), mac birmingham/TPWM/New Art Gallery Walsall, March 2016
Work in Progress II, Grand Union Gallery, Birmingham, January 2016
Awards
DYCP, Arts Council England, August 2021
New Art West Midlands Graduate Prize, 2019
Hippodrome 120, Pangaea Sculpture award (shortlisted), July 2019
Next Wave prize, RBSA 2018
Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest MA Exhibition prize 2017
A-N Professional Development Grant 2017
Publications/Press
First Outing reviewed by Nia Thomas, Corridor8 (November 2021)
UN//TITLED: An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art, 2016-2020 reviewed by Jonathan Kemp, Queerguru (June 2021)
UN//TITLED: An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art, 2016-2020 (April 2021)
The Vulnerabilities of Queer Bodies, Balaclava.q, June 2020
Marion Piper and Matt Gale in Conversation (May 2020) Sowing Seeds, Coventry Biennial pg. 18-22
On Smocking, Science and Sex (April, 2020) Decorating Dissidence, Issue 8: Queering Craft
Coventry Biennial review (December 2019), Joanna Byrne
Artist profile and interview, The Asian Curator, 2019
An Artist's Take on the Insularity of Modern Times, RBSA Art Blog, 2019
Review of NTU Summer Lodge 2018, NAWM, 2018
Teaching /Speaking events
The Coast is Queer, a-n Assembly Conference, First Outing panel, 28 Sept 2021
Online Lunch Club, Eastside Projects - 'fungi, mold and decay' March 2021
Biomaterials Outside Science symposium - University of Birmingham March 2021
Visiting Lecturer:
University of Wolverhampton - 10/2019 - 2020
Birmingham City University - 1/2013 - 5/2016
Education
MA Fine Art (Distinction) - 2017
BIAD, School of Art, Birmingham City University
PGCE (Advanced) Early Years - 2005
The University of Birmingham
BSc. Hons Zoology - 1996
The University of Nottingham