Matilda Moors

Areas of interest: contemporary art; art history and theory; histories and practices of sculpture and installation; the art object; the readymade & appropriation; ritual objects; theories of objecthood; art writing; the experimental essay; text-based art practices; queer theory; feminisms; girlhood; embodiment; the abject; the body in art; histories and practices of non-conformist bodies in art; pop and sub cultures; punk; theories of taste; theories of desire; fashion theory  

Specialisms: sculptural making practices and techniques; soft sculpture; histories, theories and politics of ‘the cute’; histories, theories and politics of the cartoon in art; adolescent methodologies in art practice

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS  

2024 Witch Marks, Transition at Sluice, Colchester

2023 The Amber Room, Matt's Gallery, London

2023 Strange Feelings, Tylscone Hall, Norfolk

2022 Horror Show!, Somerset House, London  

2021 The Gallery in the Expanded Field, blip blip blip, Moscow  

2020 Crypsis Pairing (commissioned text), Art Lacuna, London  

2020 Plusgood, Enclave, London  

2020 FOR/IN ITSELF Chalton Gallery, London  

2019 High Strangeness, Function Suite, London  

2019 Temporary Realities, Chalton Gallery, London  

2018 Auto Aim, Geidai, Tokyo  

2018 HTTPS:// curated by IKO, Sluice HQ, London  

2018 Sinkhole, Ginny Projects, online  

2017 Bearing Liability, Strange Cargo, Folkestone  

2017 Addams Outtakes, Roaming Projects, London  

2016 SNAKEHORSEGOATMONKEY, Guest Projects, London  

2016 The Bathhouse Show, Space Space, Tokyo  

2015 Lockjaws*, Trinity Arts Centre, Bristol  

2015 Treat Yo Self, (it's all) Tropical, Sheffield  

2014 Topping, Barbican Arts Trust, London  

2014 Tourist Information Centre, Supercollider, Blackpool   

2013 Unspecific Objects, Malgras|Naudet & The Royal Standard, Manchester & Liverpool  

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES  

2024 CuratorSpace Bursary

2024 Party as Form Residency, Praksis, Oslo

2023 Eaton Fund Grant

2019 Desktop Residency 

2019 Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award  

2018 E Vincent Harris Award  

2017 MARA/LOPF Print Prize  

2017 Geidai Residency, Tokyo University of the Arts 

PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS  

2024 PRAKSIS Presents & Dilettante Army, Party As Form Issue, Vampire Clubs

2024 Monstrous Flesh, Issue 1, What’s Behind the Eyes: Envy, Femininity and Class in Onibaba

2022 Garageland, Biography Issue, Shamelessly Writing Yourself 

2020 Trebuchet Issue 8, The Crush of Bodies at Chalton Gallery  

2020 Elephant Magazine, The Artists Keeping the Absurdist, Irreverent Spirit of Dada Alive 

2020 Illiterati, tinyletter.com/illiterati  

2019 Carton, Numbered Editions  

TALKS & SYMPOSIA  

2022 Straying Across Narrative: AAD Drawing Symposium, London Metropolitan University, London

2019 Lincoln Creates Network with Matilda Moors, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln  

2014 All Research is Crisis, Five Years, London  

2013 New Terms: Radical Education Workshop, ICA, London