UK residents in research lock-down at the Lock-Up
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 11:07AM 
Paul Howard and David Matthews, installation at Museum of London: ‘Rush Hour’, 2007
Visual Artist, Paul Howard, and Writer, David Matthews, both from London are currently in residence for the next three weeks at the Lock-Up. Paul and David have collaborated on projects since 2005 but the Rush Hour project, which toured the UK, Sierra Leone and Barbados in 2007, and was extensively reviewed by critics and press, was their most important work to date. Rush Hour was a creative response to the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire.
In Newcastle to research and develop a new collaborative project, Water Fiction, Paul and David will be exploring the emotive issue of global drought and the commodification of water, as seen through the eyes of a remote Aboriginal community in the Australian outback.
Paul Howard is an award-winning artist and curator and was born in Brighton in 1967. He trained as a Fine Artist at Camberwell College of Arts in London. The starting point of Paul’s work is social-historical events and the history of art. His research is grounded is visual anthropology and to some extent art and cultural theory. The results are theatrical re-stagings of theory and practice from specific spatial-temporalities.
Paul’s recent digital animation work deliberately manipulates symbols and codes bringing out alternative translations of 'Old Master' paintings and allegoric images. The work inspires multiple readings and the layering techniques of the technologies are used to subvert our vision. His work sits within a tradition of montage and cut up techniques that have existed in British art since the Sixties. Furthermore, the works critique trendy culture and the 'vernacular cosmopolitanism' of our time.
Paul Howard is currently Senior Curator at the Casula Powerhouse in South-West Sydney. The residency provides scope for artist and writer to meet in the same country to foster their collaborative process.
David Matthews is an award-winning writer and journalist. Born in London in 1967 to Guyanese parents, he grew up in the East End (and for a spell in Brooklyn, New York). He has filed news reports and features for a diverse range of publications including, the Observer, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, GQ, Esquire, Daily Mail and New Statesman, Morning Star, Big Issue and the Evening Standard.
His debut book, the critically acclaimed Looking for a Fight, was published by Headline in February 2001 and is the gripping story of his journey into the dark heart of professional boxing. For nearly two-and-a-half years, he sacrificed his career, family and almost his sanity to chronicle the life of a professional fighter – by becoming one himself. Looking for a Fight was short-listed for the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was an instant Sunday Times and Independent bestseller. An extract based on his boxing exploits, published in Journalist magazine, won the 2001 TUC Press and PR Journalism award for best feature. His second book, Man Buys Dog–a tragicomic narrative non-fiction on greyhound racing–was published in May 2005, again to critical acclaim. David is now completing his third book, True Blue – a journey into social, cultural and political heart of conservative England (to be pub by Fourth Estate, March 2009).
David’s writing style is a combination of participatory journalism, in which he submerges himself in his subject matter, hardboiled reportage and painfully honest social commentary. His books have been variously described as “richly descriptive” (Time Out), “riveting” (Guardian) and “compelling” (Observer) while features and columns have marked him out as a thought provoking and daringly controversial writer.
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