Paul Matosic is an artist and film maker based in Nottingham England.

"It seems that I have always used found or recycled objects; My earliest memories are of playing in the stock room of my mother's shop and building dens out of empty cardboard boxes, bits of string and anything else that came to hand. It also seems that I have always had an interest in maps and the landscape; that these should collide in the making of art is only to be expected."

Recent work has focused on the creation of large scale floor based installations using a variety of material collections; in particular found objects collected during walks across urban areas, the detritus of consumer society discarded on the streets and in another series of works the components of disassembled new technology. In each the resulting installations can be read as maps of urban industrialised landscapes, often a dystopian view of crumbling edifice and general decay.

This disdain for wanton consumerism is again taken up in other installation work using left over packaging especially polystyrene. This use once and chuck away material having an inherent sculptural form that is exploited to its fullest in some of the large scale structures, internally lit by neon light, itself another signifier of retail.

Concentrating on the found objects collections these installations have evolved over the years as new discarded material is added. This modern day archaeology illustrates the values of modern day society and its exploitation of natural resources. The objects carefully arranged can be seen as individual buildings within a cityscape, each with its own scale whilst they can also be read in a more fundamental way as physical poetry, each object being a word, or collection of words.

Carisbrooke
2 Southey Street
Nottingham
NG7 4BG.

E-mail: matosic@ic24.net

Web site
www.matosic.org.uk