Matt Hass is
a painter, photographer & filmmaker. Drawing inspiration directly from his surroundings, his practise is focused primarily on trying to express the constantly elusive narratives hidden within his environment.
A lifelong obsession with Cinema weaves an invisible thread throughout his work. Discarded ephemera are collated and collaged in fractured, film-still like compositions. Kaleidoscopic frames that contain a continuous conversation between paint, photography and moving image, speaking to the fragmentation of the times, and hurtling speed of change. He recently directed his first script, funded by the BFI and paints from his studio in Tottenham, London.
Published in: The Architects Journal, Dazed & Confused, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, Interview Magazine, It's Nice That, NME, Rolling Stone, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, The Times, Vice, The Wire, Wonderland and more.
A Naked City. A disordered cycle of surfaces being constructed, defaced, cleaned, left to deteriorate; then either repaired or destroyed. Isolated moments that when fixed and distilled, hold the true identity and thoughts of a society.
Even the slightest interaction with an environment leaves a trace. Hass’s paintings are journals that honour the often unseen.
Hass’s large scale works investigate a perpetual emotional distance from society and his environment. A desire but ultimately an inability to truly belong.
Expanding from a snapshot of the seemingly insignificant.
A record of the forgotten. Honouring the abandoned. Poems to the void. Narratives for the fragment.
