MATTHEW COSSLETT
Matthew Cosslett (he/him, b. 1995, Ballantrae, Scotland), based in Glasgow, is a multidisciplinary artist who recently completed their MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Matthew’s practice interrogates Scottish and digital topography using ephemeral archives like YouTube, alongside video, photography, text, and sound to explore how we build meaning in dirt and in data. Viewing our relationship to place and landscape as a locus of an image-individual nexus, Matthew transmutes the network atop imagined places and projects its seemingly divergent realities over loaded landscapes.
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Matthew Cosslett (he/him, b. 1995, Ballantrae, Scotland), based in Glasgow, is a multidisciplinary artist who recently completed their MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Matthew’s practice interrogates Scottish and digital topography using ephemeral archives like YouTube, alongside video, photography, text, and sound to explore how we build meaning in dirt and in data. Viewing our relationship to place and landscape as a locus of an image-individual nexus, Matthew transmutes the network atop imagined places and projects its seemingly divergent realities over loaded landscapes.
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The A77 is a network upon which packets and bundles of information and goods flow between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Beginning over water in Glasgow, the A77 runs south to the ferry ports of Cairnryan before running out to the sea again at its end in Portpatrick. It is one of the most dangerous roads in Scotland.
This timeline, the A77, diverts itself alongside the dense geological formations of the ‘Ballantrae Complex’, a time-map that forms the coastline between Girvan and Ballantrae. On this section of the A77 sits ‘Kennedy’s Pass’, a segment of road where the tarmac struggles to cling to the violent, varied, and dense rocks that envelop it.
hat envelop it.
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