Matthew Stone
Matthew Stone’s multidisciplinary practice reimagines painting through the convergence of traditional techniques and digital technologies. Working across painting, photography, performance, and digital composition, he creates works that challenge conventional distinctions between the physical and the virtual, exploring new possibilities for contemporary image-making.
Biography
Bio
Matthew Stone was born in London in 1982. He lives and works in the Wye Valley, United Kingdom.
Academic Carrer
Specific details about Matthew Stone's academic background are not widely available online.
Professional Carrer
Stone was a founding member of the South London art collective !WOWOW! in the early 2000s, contributing to the city's alternative cultural scene across exhibitions, performances, fashion, music, and nightlife. His work has since been exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami Beach, ICA London, the Marrakech Biennale, the Royal Academy, the Serpentine, and Tate Britain. He has also collaborated with artists and brands including FKA twigs, Rick Owens, Apple, Riccardo Tisci, Dazed, and Gentle Monster.
Influences
Stone's practice draws on the history of painting while embracing contemporary digital technologies as an extension of painterly gesture. Through the combination of hand-painted brushstrokes, photography, and 3D software, he investigates the relationship between analogue and digital image-making, the human body, and new forms of collective experience.
Works from Matthew Stone
Human Behaviour
Matthew Stone
Edition of /35 + 5 AP
Giclée print on paper
Hand-finished, signed and numbered by the artist
Cotton 270 g/m2 paper
55 × 67 cm
2026
*Please remove the edition from the tube as soon as possible after receipt. Due to its hand-finished nature, it should not be kept inside the tube for an extended period.
Emerging from Matthew Stone's ongoing exploration of layered realities, this work brings together movement, colour, and gestural forms into a composition where multiple visual and emotional dimensions coexist. Surfaces overlap, painted marks create shifting depths, while material and simulated spaces dissolve into one another, reflecting the complexity of contemporary experience.
Characteristic of Stone's practice, the digital and the physical are not positioned in opposition, but exist as complementary layers within the same pictorial language. Image, gesture, surface, and presence continuously intersect, creating a visual field where complexity gives way to moments of stillness and connection. Balancing movement with quiet contemplation, the work reflects on how, within an increasingly layered world, new ways of being fully human can continue to emerge.
Turning
Matthew Stone
Edition of /75 + 10 AP
Giclée print on paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Cotton Natural White 270 g/m2 paper
60 × 50 cm
2022





