Matthew Giraudeau
matthew.giraudeau@hotmail.com
http://dekersaint.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/dogtanion
Qualifications
1st Class Honours B.A Fine Art at Northumbria University 2004-2007
Also previously studied: Philosophy, Photography, Art History and English Literature to A Level Standard.
Computer skills
Proficient in the Adobe range of design and editing programs including, Photoshop, In Design and Image Ready. Also a high standard of editing video and audio, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Avid, Sony Soundforge, Sony Acidpro, Ableton Live and basic Cubase and Pro Tools. Also a good working knowledge of html.
Publications
February 2008. 'A Metre Before Impact' - A book of writing and drawings, published by Waygood gallery.
November 2007. 'The Silence of Things' – An introductory essay for the catalogue of a season of films by the artist, Ben Jeans-Houghton.
June 2007. ‘Artwat’ - A new critical writing/ephemera magazine for Newcastle and the world. Editor and contributor
2006. ‘Skin Cell’ - an edition of DVD’s produced with the animator Mark Bell, an animation exploring fragmented identity using only a scanner to produce the film and music.
Exhibitions
February 2008. 'Jet Season' at Little Jewel Cinema. 'Up/scape' film shown for two weeks.
November 2007. 'Gibbo's Makes a Scene' at Gibbo's Flospace, London. Paintings.
June 2007. ‘It’s Dead; We Killed It.’ at Northumbria University, Newcastle. ‘Beginning, middle, end’ video installation and ‘Conversation piece’ double video installation.
May 2007. ‘Slow Light.’ at Gallery North, Newcastle. ‘17/2 prime numbers, art and pragmatic objectivity’, conversational lecture with projections.
February 2007. ‘Eyes Wide Open’ at the Star and Shadow, Newcastle. ‘Up/scape’ and ‘Unnun’ included in screening.
November 2006. ‘The Projection Gallery’ at the Liverpool Biennial. ‘God’ and ‘Up/scape’ included in group show.
October 2006. Performance platform event. 'Platform00000006' at Waygood gallery, Newcastle. 'Mobile Disco' performance.
October 2006 (launch of project). 'Memory Scapes'. Sound piece, 'Improvise-Formalise-Memory test' included in Edition IV of the Soundlab New Media Festival. Touring exhibition around Europe/Middle East. Also showing at FILE Hipersonica Festival -
a satellite of FILE Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil13 August - 9 September 2007
August 2006 – ongoing. International Short film and animation circuit. Various festivals around Europe and Asia. Animation 'Skin Cell' (see 'publications').
July 2006. International festival of new art. 'Deviant(art)' in the Pumphaus gallery in Trollhattan. Performances and videos.
June 2006. Group Show ‘Fine Line Presents..’ at Newcastle University. Performance.
March 2006. Group Show 'Fine Line 2' at the Forth Hotel, Newcastle. Paintings, photos and prints.
October 2005. Group performance/video Evening. 'The Fine Line Between Good Art and Bad Life' Gallery North, Newcastle. Videos, performances, curation of show.
April 2005. Group Show. 'Neo-Pomo' at the Forth hotel, Newcastle. Sculptures, photos, curation/promotion of show.
What we want is not what we get. What we attempt to do is not what we achieve. There is disparity here. There is a paradox in contemporary art production. Reality is a disparate cavalcade of sense impressions, jabbing us in the eyes with pointy fingers. Making art is about imposing order and a sense of linear progress on the world. Who are we to believe? What clever word should we use to describe our situation? If the Gulf War is a computer game, how do we know that Milton Keynes is real?
We all exist within this gulf between belief and knowledge, its just most of us choose (quite rightly) to ignore it. Some of us don’t. There is no solution to the problem, only ways of becoming at ease with it. Stuck floating between reality and theory is an ugly place called ‘funny’. Matthew Giraudeau sits on a chair that is slightly too small for him, in an ill fitting suit, within that chinless realm. Humour allows us to be both within and without. A cool observer manically laughing at the absurd normality of life. This is a valiant, but ultimately doomed, attempt to place value at the centre of action.
Work
'Played by Gentlemen'. Still from unfinished installation piece. 2008
'Two Friends'. Still from digital video. 2007.
'Up/scape'. Still from digital video. 2007.
