Matthew Stone : Forever Rules (Part I)

14 May-25 Jun 2011

Overview

Matthew Stone is an artist and shaman. These two interconnected roles are defined by his activities as photographer, sculptor, performer, curator, writer, musician Optimist, and cultural provocateur. Stone’s work and thinking goes far beyond the remit of his art, and his power of existence is recreating the role of the artist in the 21st century. Recognising this, The Sunday Times recently placed him at number one in the arts section of their “Power players under 30” list. He has exhibited at Tate Britain, The Baltic. The ICA & The Royal Academy. He regularly lectures on his personal philosophy of 'Optimism as Cultural Rebellion", which has been defined as an intellectual antidote to the 'nihilistic paralysis' that emerged from Post-Modernism.