When beginning a new series with a pre-defined focus, I collate relevant words and phrases on posits for the eye to drift over and pick out effective and surprising connections from which poetry can grow. Selected words are gathered in stanzas, often with sketches for possible diagrams alongside them.
I enjoy the surprising allusions of these miniature poems, the briefest of which I tweet as typographic diagram poems before committing them to paper for good (twitter.com/matthewjameskay).
Studied BA Fine Art at Loughborough University School of Art and Design 2001 - 2004 and MA Sculpture at UAL Wimbledon College 2008 - 2009. I now live and work in South London. My practice maps the spaces between brokenness and wholeness, between doubt and trust, hope and fear, superstition and faith - the in-between places that we inhabit emotionally every day. Referencing religious and pop imagery my assemblages, animations and works on paper explore themes of sacrament, the everyday and the transcendent.
