Matt Simmons
This body of work explores the concept of the utopian as an unattainable vision. Taking a local shopping centre as its subject, the project uses montage to bring together archival type imagery with architectural drawings. The images of the building become disrupted; squashed into impossible shapes and broken up by the lines of its envisioning. Although only examining one building, the work considers civil architecture as a whole, highlighting the impossibility of fabricating the utopian city centres we see proposed in our society. The many translations a building undergoes to reach its final completion means that it will inevitably fall short of its idealised conception. This translation is continued by time, as architecture is inevitably re-contextualised within the urban landscape.
Emily Clemson • Philip Curnow • Nicola Dellard-Lyle • Julia Dudkowiak • James Head • Beverley Isaac • Aidan Mayne • Kate Mercer • Jason Peck • Sue Anne Phelan • Matt Simmons • Hannah Winston •
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
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Mid Cheshire College
Foundation Degree Contemporary Photography
University of Chester
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Cleveland College of Art and Design
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University of Cumbria
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De Montfort University
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University of Derby
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Edinburgh College of Art
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University College Falmouth
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University for the Creative Arts Farnham
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Glasgow School of Art
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Griffith College Dublin
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Griffith College Dublin
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Hereford College of Arts
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Hereford College of Arts
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The National College of Art & Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
University of Wales, Newport
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University of Plymouth
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Portsmouth University
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Staffordshire University
FDA Creative & Cultural Industries, Digital Media
Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts