MODERN RELICS
MATTHEW LINTOTT
Touring
14.01.26 – 08.03.26 – OBS GALLERY TONBRIDGE SCHOOL
05.12.26 – 27.02.27 – LLANTARNAM GRANGE
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.
If you are interested in showing this exhibition, please get in touch with our Exhibitions Officer Savanna Dumelow on savanna.dumelow@llantarnamgrange.com
