Career
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, Street 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
The 2012 film "Overlay" focuses attention on the geological character of the Portland beds along the Purbeck coast.
