Matthew Dowell (b.1994, Sunderland, UK) has a research based practice working across the expanded fields of print, performance, and sculpture. He studied Fine Art at Kingston School of Art (2013-16) and Print at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). His work responds to specific sites and objects, adopting anthropological models of working by exploring social histories, collecting and recording signifiers of place: signs, mapping and ephemera. Through the building of these informal archives of objects, images and information the work centers itself in these histories as sites for exchange and a contemporary exploration of the placemaking.