Matthew Wilson (b. 1997) is a visual artist currently living and working between Northern Ireland and Cornwall. For Wilson, making becomes a form of mapping; of landscapes, identities and cultural transitions. With an intertwining of personal and cultural narratives utilising storytelling to open dialogue between these pasts, presents and futures. Centring around intimate material processes, the work develops a methodology responding to site specificity using slow, sensitive approaches. Sculpture, performance, drawing, writing, all find their place within an ecosystem of making - everything has its time and place.

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Following his graduation from the Belfast School of Art, he has continued to exhibit both locally and internationally. Alongside this personal practice, he has developed a number of commissioned projects within the community. Working with institutions such as Ulster University and Queens University, local community groups and government Council bodies to deliver workshops and legacy projects.

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In 2025, he was the inaugural recipient of the Freelands Foundation Studio Fellowship based at Falmouth University - developing a new body of work whilst exploring the symbiotic relationship between teaching, research and making.

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Image: Eslam Abd El Salam