Matterlurgy

Matterlurgy is a collaborative practice between London-based artists Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright. They investigate the critical ecologies of environmental change, across disciplines and media, combining the production of artworks with co-constructed events, exhibitions, and live performance. Matterlurgy have produced projects about air pollution, waste, flooding, and climate modeling. Artworks have been made in relation to sites including a hydropower station, disused steelworks, a laboratory for ice simulation, an abandoned copper mine, and galleries and museum collections. They have collaborated on projects with scientists at The University of Cambridge, University College London, King’s College London, University of Sheffield, Royal Holloway University of London, and the National Oceanography Centre.

Matterlurgy’s work has been commissioned and exhibited across venues and partners including Delfina Foundation, Arts Catalyst, Tate Modern, Raven Row Gallery, Gazelli Art House, Whitechapel Gallery, ICA, The Showroom Gallery, Watermans Gallery, UK Green Film Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (UK). Matterlurgy have shown their work internationally at Bòlit Contemporary Arts Centre (Spain), Mains d’Œuvres (France), ONOMA, HIAP Frontiers of Retreat, Titanik Gallery (Finland), Dalane Kulturfestival, Rogaland Kunstsenter (Norway). Current work includes a cross-disciplinary project about river ecosystems (Arts Catalyst, UK) and ongoing research with the Archipelago Research Institute (Taru Elfving, CCA, Seili/Turku).

Their work has been featured in: “Third Text” journal, MIMA's interview series “Hearing from Artists,” and the publication “Remain” by Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka, and Rebecca Schneider (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). Their project “Beneath the Signal and Noise” is included in the “UK Green Guide: Creative Responses to Sustainability,” published by Asia-Europe Foundation (2021).