Mat Chivers

Mat Chivers is a British visual artist whose work looks at how the fundamental phenomena that exist below the surface of things inform the way we experience the world around us. The process of making draws on combinations of analogue and digital technologies in works that embody a hybridisation of old-world subjects and techniques with contemporary envisioning processes. His practice focuses at the location between data capture and its consequent interpretation in order to explore the ambiguous nature of perception

Mat Chivers has works in private and public collections nationally and internationally including a recent commission for Oxford University Mathematical Institute

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Altered States’ at Hallmark House, Johannesburg, South Africa; ’Between Day and Night and Night and the Day’ at Kappatos Gallery, Athens; ’Syzygy’ at Millennium, St Ives and ‘Fascination’ at Maddox Arts, London. Group exhibitions include ‘Glasstress: White Light/White Heat’ at Pallazzo Cavalli Franchetti for the 55th Venice Biennale and The Wallace Collection, London; ‘The Knowledge’ at The Gervasuti Foundation for the 54th Venice Biennale; ‘Material Matters: The Power of the Medium’ at The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London and ‘Eleventh Plateau’ at the Athens Biennial and The Historical Archives Museum, Hydra

Projects include Arts Council England awards in 2003 and 2005. Works in public collections include source at the Healthy Living Centre, Bristol (2004), Archive: Case Study: Wellspring Healthy Living Centre at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (2006) and wave migration, collection of The Met Office headquarters, Exeter (2004).

The 2012 film 'Overlay' focuses attention on the geological character of the Portland beds along the Purbeck coast.