MATTHEW BURROWS

About

Up Down is a Utopian place - a world where perfection is the governing ethos.
It is the 'no place' of the imagination, a world created by the artifice of painting that paradoxically tells us things about the reality in which we live. Burrows depicts the architecture and people of Up Down as bound within a strict and ascendant hierarchy, inhabiting cities which resemble a children's playground, strictly forbidden ever to touch the earth. The paintings hang as an inter related collection of images, ranging from tiny studies of the flora and fauna of Up Down, to portraits of it's inhabitants and large scale panoramic landscapes.