GALLERY 1
MODERN RELICS – MATTHEW LINTOTT
5 DECEMBER – 27 FEBRUARY
Modern Relics is a solo exhibition by printmaker Matthew Lintott that explores how perceptions of deep time and space can affect our relationship with the land. Through woodcut relief printmaking, sculpture, and audio, Matthew draws on myths and geology to unearth the past, the wild, and the remote, taking us back to ancient landscape and materials.
Inspired by traditional Japanese woodblock techniques, Matthew prints predominantly by hand, without the use of a printing press. Working with geological material, including the fossilised remains of a 200 million year old squid, he produces his own printing ink, reanimating the ancient material into a new form.
Collaborating across species, science, ancestors, and memory, Matthew draws on conversations and field research with a paleobiologist; works with mountaineering photographs taken by his late father; and prints with his Jurassic inks. He also acknowledges the River Avon as another collaborator and force in his work. With these voices and contributions, Matthew assembles a collective story that celebrates the ancient and the contemporary.
“Is it possible for how we think to be fundamentally altered by understanding the nature of deep time? To change our behaviour in relation to our environment? The mountain is not still, it is either rising or falling. Adjusting our perception of time beyond the human experience allows us to think more like the river, like the land.” – Matthew Lintott
From the sculpture of Ammon’s Horn, that echoes the preserving power of bog wood and the beginnings of fossilisation, to Deep Time Audio, that brings elemental forces and personal fossil hunting expeditions into an immersive soundscape, Matthew has created a collections of objects that blur past and present. Through this gateway to the ancient we are invited to look back, reflect, and bring things forward; shifting our perspective and transforming the world around us.
There will be an opening in the gallery on Saturday 5 December, 12-2pm, and the exhibition will run until the 27 February 2027.
Join Matthew for an Artist Talk at the opening on Saturday 5 December March, at 1pm. Book a free place here.
BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Lintott is an award winning artist who specialises in woodcut relief printmaking. He lives in Bristol, and works out of Bricks studios. Graduating with an MA in Printmaking from The University of the West of England, he was awarded the Peter Reddick year-long residency at Spike Print Studio.
Matthew has exhibited across the UK and internationally in the USA and Japan, with solo exhibitions in London, Bristol and Minnesota. His work has featured in national and international publications, including the California Journal of Printmaking, and he was awarded the editorial prize by Printmaking Today at Woolwich contemporary print fair.
He received the inaugural Rabley Gallery Print prize at the Royal West Academy 2022, and was the first printmaker-in-residence at City Lit University, London, where he was mentored by the master printmaker Thomas Gosebruch.
Matthew was also part of our annual graduate exhibition Portal in 2021. Modern Relics will touring throughout 2026, and coming to Llantarnam Grange in 2027.
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