Matthew Darbyshire

Matthew Darbyshire (born 1977, Cambridge, UK) is a British artist who lives and works in London.^[1]

Background[]

Darbyshire was born in Cambridge, UK, in 1977. He completed his BA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, before going on to complete his Post-Graduate Diploma at Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2005.^[2] Darbyshire has held teaching positions at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Open School East, London/Margate, Goldsmiths, Royal Academy Schools, London and Dirty Art Dept, Amsterdam.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Exhibitions[]

Darbyshire's work has been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery,^[9] Manchester Art Gallery,^[10][11] Krolikarnia National Museum, Warsaw,^[12] The Hepworth, Wakefield,^[13] Tramway, Glasgow,^[14] Whitechapel Gallery,^[15] the Royal Academy of Arts.^[16] His work is in the public collections of Arts Council Collection, UK Government Art Collection, UK, Artist Pension Trust, New York, US, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, DE, , Paris, FR, The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK.^[17] Public commissions are on display at 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier, Olympic Stadionplein, Amsterdam, NL^[18] and Sculpture Garden, Battersea in London.^[19]

Works[]

In 2014 Darbyshire created the polystyrene sculpture Hercules, which is an imitation of the Farnese Hercules.^[20] The deliberate choice of a white material has been interpreted as a perpetuation of colourism in how we view and understand classical sculpture.^[20]

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