Matt Blackler

Artist

Matt Blackler is a sculptor performing the role of engineer. His sculpture often employs laborious techniques which has been taken further into the absurd; building an octagonal cast iron veneering lathe from scratch. Matt is based at V22 in Lewisham.

Interviewer Natalie Wills
Camera Tom Sweetland
Editor Pablo de Laborde Lascaris
Producer Lucy Tomlins / Natalie Wills

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Research

01/10/2021

What Are Heritage Grains? Turning Wheat Into Flour

Cultivating our own thatching straw for the Hand Earth Gesture Return public art programme, we teamed up with John Letts and the Heritage Grain Trust to learn how to traditionally...

Talk

06/07/2023

Collaboratively Crafting a Future

Talk by Nandita Palchoudhuri, Kolkata-based Consultant-Curator within Indian Folk Practices in the Visual Arts, Crafts and Performance....

Talk

23/06/2021

Nicola Ellis: Public Commissions and Collaborations

Watch our talk with artist Nicola Ellis on Public Commissions and Collaborations. Part of the On Fabrication Season, in partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation....

Interview

17/12/2018

Matt Smith and Boccioni

Utilising modern technological advancements in digital sculpting, 3D printing and 5-axis milling to recreate sculptures by esteemed Futurist Boccioni....