Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright) are a collaborative artist duo based in London, UK. Their work explores how environments and ecologies emerge across scales, senses, technologies and infrastructures. Projects have investigated water health, air pollution, flooding and ocean modelling. Their practice involves the development of cross-disciplinary field methods with scientists and members of the public. These methods offer collaborative ways of sensing and engaging with changing environments and act as creative catalysts for artworks.
They make installations and exhibitions that incorporate video, sculptural objects, text, images, sound and performance. Their ongoing work with water bodies has included recent solo exhibitions ‘Field Casting’ (CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, Titanik Gallery); ‘Ways of Water’ (Sheffield Museums, Millennium Gallery) and workshops along the Thames foreshore with river ecologists and members of the public (Whitechapel Gallery, Arts Catalyst). Each year, they facilitate an Experimental Lab session for MA Art & Ecology students at Goldsmiths University, exploring Deptford Creek in collaboration with Creekside Discovery Centre.
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