Mat Chivers - Jurassic Coast Art Residency

Mat Chivers has started 2022 with a residency at Hogchester Arts in Dorset. Chivers describes his initial interaction with the nearby Jurassic coast and the experience of "walking through time on the ammonite pavement at Monmouth bay near Lyme Regis… Ammonites were wiped out 66 million years ago when the debris cloud from a 10 km wide meteorite impacting Earth turned the skies dark, stopping photosynthesis and wiping out whole ecosystems, returning the oceans to a microbial soup not seen for billions of years”.

Mat Chivers’ artworks examine how the fundamental phenomena that exist below the surface of things informs the way we experience the world around us. For Chivers, the process of making draws on combinations of analogue and digital technologies in works that embody a hybridisation of old-world and contemporary envisioning and production processes. His work draws from the insight offered by the age-old truism: change is the only constant. Evolution is the bass line that threads through the things that he makes.

Hogchester Arts Artist Residency Programme offers opportunities for artists to stay and work within the immersive environment of Hogchester and to respond to its unique history and varied, ancient landscape. Hogchester hopes to gain new insights into the understanding of itself through the exploratory practices of visiting artists in residence.

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