Matthew Duckett

Matthew  was born in Leeds in 1966 and lived in Ilkley on and off from 1976 to 2000. He studied at Bradford College and then at Central St Martins in London, and taught at Leeds College of Art for twenty-five years. He currently lives in Baildon.

The majority of my work is an abstracted recollection of intimately known local landscapes, but these images differ. They are rooted more firmly in a tangible reality, but are more distant in that they are based on photographs, photographs of distant places, long ago. Any clues to their context have been removed. I make no claim to ‘ownership’, and apologise to anyone who might recognise a connection to a time, a place, or an event, though as some might guess, movies are sometimes referred to.