Matty Wild - BA (Hons) Illustration with Animation
Matty Wild is an up-and-coming illustrator, predominantly working in printmaking and ceramics. Themes of their work range from explorations of gender and sexuality, with a heavy focus on human figure to less figurative work focusing on topics of mental health, activism and navigating the world as a queer person. They began with a more realistic approach to their style but have since begun to branch out to a more illustrative style in their work. Their inspiration comes from many places, such as personal and shared experiences. A large portion of their work focuses on the human figure, relating to feelings of discomfort or discontentment in one’s body. Through ceramics and printmaking they create physical representations of queer sexuality, experimentation in gender and feelings of alienation in gender presentation and aesthetics that do not fit the heteronormative binary.
