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JDM's drawings are the work of eye and hand at the instant of seeing . At once participant and observer ,his intensity of attention defines the nature of his engagement .Each drawing imagines an immediate and transitory reality,a momentary event in a real place.JDM writes that he is a "fabricator of actualities" which is a perfect description of perception;what is actual is what we make of what the world offers.
His drawings delight in evanescence:they do not try to make the world hold still or cohere.They are not drawings of things so much as drawings of being with and part of things.They catch at,without fixing objects and events at the living moment .They match quickness of apprehension by spontaneity of gesture.They imagine the world through the movement of the hand.
Mel Gooding - London
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Recent exhibitions and Projects
NYC Urban Landcapes -Dadbrook Gallery - March 2007
Achitectural Drawing Project -Masna 'at 'urah ,Yemen -Dec 2006
Discerning Eye Exhibition -selected artist -Nov 2006
Thomas Williams Fine Art ,London -One man show- June 2006
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition .London.2004. -.
"Playing Loose "- Gerald Peters Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico; June -July 2003
Art into Fashion - Barneys, New York; June 2002 “Alegria” -
Travels in Brazil - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London; Jan 2001
Celebration of Light and Color - Gerald Peters Gallery, New Mexico; June 2000
Work in Public Collections
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Portrait Gallery, London
Acadamie Culinaire de France
Awards
First Prize - South Bank Picture Show 1992
Contact Address
Johnny Dewe Mathews
5 St Georges Terrace
Primrose Hill
London NW1 8XH
Tel/Fax +44 (0)20 7722 2540
Mobile 07940 816501
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