Speaker Series: Mathew Sawyer

Mathew Sawyer is a UK-based artist and musician. He has shown internationally in exhibitions such as The Distance Between You and Me at the Lisson, Documentary Creations at the Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland, Protest & Survive at the Whitechapel and Passing Water at Art Metropole in Toronto. He is represented by the Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco and the Sonia Rosso Gallery, Turin, Italy. Sawyer plays music with The Ghosts and Television Personalities. In ArtForum, Matthew Higgs has written that Sawyer’s works “describe, for the most part, his tragicomic, typically unrequited, attempts to make contact with or have his presence acknowledged by others.” Sawyer’s work is included in Pardon Me, a group exhibition curated by Cate Rimmer for the Saideye Bronfman Centre in Montreal which will be shown at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in March and April.

The Speaker Series (2000–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures organized by Charles H. Scott Gallery in conjunction with the Art Now course at ECIAD. The programme was initiated by ECIAD faculty Ian Wallace in the 1970’s as a series of lunchtime artist talks. Wallace ran the programme until 1998.