MAT LLOYD

Stoked to have a piece in @saraprinslooart amazing ‘Its Okay Zine’ that’s raising money for suicide prevention charity Papyrus UK , the first print sold out in 48 hours but don’t worry you can pre order the next print HERE!!!  

"PAPYRUS recognises that children and young people are among the higher risk groups in England when it comes to suicide. As many of our members have been touched personally by a young suicide, we do all we can to raise awareness and mitigate risk of suicide among the under 35s.

’regnosis’

In this online-exhibition selected artists were invited from all over the world to envision the post-corona era, taking into consideration the socio-political and individual rearrangement and redeployment which will take place in a pandemic-free world. What is the new knowledge (gnosis - γνῶσις, gnōsis, f. in the Greek language) gained after a possible introspection during this isolation? Reflecting how the new world will be operating and the adaptation that it might entail, regnōsis* should be understood as a process of re-establishing and regaining knowledge in a scenario of a new order.

The exhibition will launch on April, 25th 2020.

Participating Artists:
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Andrea Sonnenberg (US) @teenwitchsf
Androula Kafa (CY) @androula__
Baptiste Burlot (FR) @baptiste_burlot
Fumiaki Asai (JP) @23aki
Geralnd Zahn (AT) @geraldzahn
Johanna Walderdorff (DE) @atelier_walderdorff
Lefki Savvidou (CY) @leboob17
Łukasz Wierzbowski (PL) @lukasz_wierzbowski
Mat Lloyd (GB) @matlloydpoet
Moritz Berg (DE) @bergggggggggggggg
Nick Bueltge (DE) @replikant76
Nika Kupyrova (UA/AT) @nikakupyrova
Sergio Pradana (ES) @sergio_pradana

This exhibition is an initiative by Eleni Angastiniotou @angasel and Lefki Savvidou @leboob17 in order to enforce cultural activity during the period of isolation, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. *The title regnōsis was inspired by an article written by German future researcher and visionary Matthias Horx, “Die Welt nach Corona”/ “The Post Corona World”. #onlineexhibition #covid_19 #coronaera #internationalart #internationalartists #postcoronaera

I'm extemely lucky to have an 8 page feature in the new 'Foundry Magazine', mad props to editor Domonic Gibbon for making it happen. Get your copy from https://www.foundrymag.co.uk

My friend Philip Levine is raising money for the Smallest Gallery in Soho. He was a massive force in my development as a spoken word artist and included me in a number of Lazy Gramaphone books and many gigs over the years.

I was interviewed last week for an upcoming documentary called 'We Can Fly'.  Currently scheduled for release in August it aims to look at the freedom and creativity embodied in skate culture.  As the project progresses, small 'Snippets' are being released to promote the project and you can see mine below: