Matthew Holman
Matthew Holman is a writer and critic. He often writes on art and politics; his criticism has been published by Critical Quarterly, Frieze, Apollo, Burlington Contemporary, and The Art Newspaper, and his long-form essays have accompanied exhibitions at Thaddeaus Ropac, Cahiers d’Art, Nahmad Projects, Waddington Custot, and elsewhere.
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Matthew Holman visits Sheffield to find a burgeoning community of artists and galleries proving that it’s not 'grim up north'
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Don’t knock Sheffield: “There’s a sense that everything in the arts is closing, but we are just opening up”
Don’t knock Sheffield: “There’s a sense that everything in the arts is closing, but we are just opening up”
Words: Matthew Holman
Don’t knock Sheffield: “There’s a sense that everything in the arts is closing, but we are just opening up”

The LA-based artist isn’t interested in hierarchies of ‘good’ and ‘bad’
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Domestic bliss with Jonas Wood
Domestic bliss with Jonas Wood
Words: Matthew Holman
Domestic bliss with Jonas Wood

Matthew Holman travels to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge to speak to Megan Rooney, who has just made a gigantic four-wall mural about the seasons
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Megan Rooney’s blue fortnight
Megan Rooney’s blue fortnight
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Megan Rooney’s blue fortnight

Matthew Holman visits Dragon Hill, an opulent new artist residency dreamt up by Unit
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Here be dragons: work, wealth and art on the French Riviera
Here be dragons: work, wealth and art on the French Riviera
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Here be dragons: work, wealth and art on the French Riviera

Matthew Holman speaks with Pol Taburet about his masked alter ego 'PYT'
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Pol Taburet’s dark-romantic carnival
Pol Taburet’s dark-romantic carnival
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Pol Taburet’s dark-romantic carnival

Manchester is bustling with a new wave of figurative artists
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Meet the Ardwick Realists: the new northern soul of British painting
Meet the Ardwick Realists: the new northern soul of British painting
Words: Matthew Holman
Meet the Ardwick Realists: the new northern soul of British painting

The American artist on the futility of language and the virtues and vices of abstraction
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Adam Pendleton: “Abstraction is a big question”
Adam Pendleton: “Abstraction is a big question”
Adam Pendleton: “Abstraction is a big question”

Sabine Moritz talks childhood memories, Ovid and flow states with Matthew Holman
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Sabine Moritz: “Everybody has an August, everybody has a midnight”
Sabine Moritz: “Everybody has an August, everybody has a midnight”
Words: Matthew Holman
Sabine Moritz: “Everybody has an August, everybody has a midnight”

New show at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum explores conditions of creativity in the age of AI
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AI is catching up with artists. So, are we really irreplaceable?
AI is catching up with artists. So, are we really irreplaceable?
Words: Matthew Holman
AI is catching up with artists. So, are we really irreplaceable?

Anthony Cudahy’s two-part exhibition – at Grimm and Hales Gallery – conjures magic from the everyday
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Anthony Cudahy’s lessons in perseverance and saintly patience
Anthony Cudahy’s lessons in perseverance and saintly patience
Words: Matthew Holman
Anthony Cudahy’s lessons in perseverance and saintly patience

Horror, artifice and twinge-in-the-tummy joy: Matthew Holman reviews Richard Prince's 'Early Photography, 1977–87'
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Richard Prince’s hall of smoke and mirrors at Gagosian London
Richard Prince’s hall of smoke and mirrors at Gagosian London
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Richard Prince’s hall of smoke and mirrors at Gagosian London

A collaboration with leading design studio Perron-Roettinger, who reimagined the utility, innovation and capacious symbolism of the box
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Perron-Roettinger thinks outside the box