A Table of Preparations

Matthew Harris’ first solo exhibition at the gallery debuts a new body of work in cloth and paper. The title of the exhibition, 'A Table of Preparations', is borrowed from the term composer John Cage used to describe the instructions he gave on how to 'prepare' a piano. From the early 1940’s Cage experimented with strategically placing a variety of objects into the strings of a piano. Using a selection of everyday items such as nuts and bolts, screws, erasers, blocks of wood and strips of rubber, plastic and card, Cage set about transforming the sonic world of the instrument....

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Matthew Harris was born in 1966 in Kent, he studied at The Hereford School of Art (1982-4) and Goldsmiths College of Art (1984-7) and now lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Matthew Harris has exhibited widely throughout the U.K, Europe, the United States and Japan. He has work in the Crafts Council Collection, The Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom) and the International Qui...

Matthew Harris was born in 1966 in Kent, he studied at The Hereford School of Art (1982-4) and Goldsmiths College of Art (1984-7) and now lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Matthew Harris has exhibited widely throughout the U.K, Europe, the United States and Japan. He has work in the Crafts Council Collection, The Whitworth Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom) and the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, U.S.A, as well as numerous private collections. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the first Arts Foundation Award for Textile Art and in 2009 completed 'Scorched' a ten metre long Graphic Score for the refurbished Bristol Beacon Concert Hall, Bristol. In 2014 he collaborated with the British composer Howard Skempton and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on 'Field Notes', an Arts Council funded, U.K concert tour.