Author: Matt Shanks

There is a benefit to collaborations and commissions that involve an artist making work that their unconscious bias has prevented thus far

When are we avoiding action because of fear versus needing to be patient for the work to find it’s place and time.

While there’s value in imposing constraints on one’s art practice, the opposite is probably true, but how do we decide?

I find writing with pictures much easier than writing with words? But people always say start with the words?

Unless your idea is made, it joins the pile of ‘ideas I should make’, not the pile you can call ‘my body of work’.

Drawing gives me energy in different ways, but there’s nothing quite like watching it give power to a child.