Mixed media visual artist, Lottie Matthews, produces work that plays between multiple art mediums, assembling mixed media pieces and conceptual sculptures. Her ideas play alongside collaged concepts of narrative, place and forming space for self, home. 

 

A space once home to a seed, planted. 

 

Using concrete monoliths, found objects and bricolage altar assemblages alongside textural mark-making, archival photography and written documentation. Lottie’s work looks at meaning making through objects and cracking open concepts of place alongside self, whilst continuing a deeply personal narrative and touching on social sculpture and identity exploration. 

 

Achieving a first-class degree in Textile Design, Lottie specialised in woven, mixed media and sculptural installation. She worked in partnership with Falmouth University’s extended education department and libraries archive collection, subsequently beginning a Masters degree in Creative Education. Research hypotheses include creative cognition, ‘Introspection: A Theoretical Exploration into the Internal & External Self’ and an award-winning piece on ‘How do we use an assemblage of objects to convey a constructed sense of self?’ 

 

Her work explores art being used for as a non-verbal tool for conversation, perspective and self-reflection, using the art of invitation and collective social spaces. Having developed and worked on numerous social engagement and social art projects, such as Encounters Art, Hospital Rooms and founding Finding Beuys, Lottie currently works as a freelance creative and for Grays Wharf Arts CIC as a community engagement and arts intern, developing social prescribing creative groups, arts administration and assisting with curation. 

 

Previous accolades include being awarded Dissertation Prize winner for Fashion and Textile Institute, Bursary awarded from The Edward James Foundation for a West Dean Short Course in Ceramics with Found Objects and Mixed Media, the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust Travel Grant and Young Artist Winner at Wiltshire Creative. 

 

Lottie has exhibited as part of Wiltshire Creative, FORM Falmouth and in Rooted Cornwall, a collective show in response to Wheal Martyn Clay Mines.