Conversations about materials
An Ting Teng on Collecting & Time
From collecting and documenting found objects which have been shaped by slow geological forces, through to alternative printing and photographic processes, Annie Teng creates a 'dialogue between time, texture, and memory'.
October 31, 2024
Ellie Niblock on 3D Modelling and Virtual World Building
Pigmented silicone, flocking fibres, and trial & error,
June 28, 2024
Seeds with Zayaan Khan & Chris Keeve
The Mater Podcast - Episode 3
June 14, 2024
The Thames Foreshore with Tom Chivers & Dr Claire Harris
Welcome to the Mater Podcast
June 11, 2024
Agnes Waruguru on Rituals & Connections
Creating spacial installations with sculptures and bedsheets dyed/painted with hibiscus, saffron and turmeric residues. We discuss place & connection, beadwork, collecting sounds of the wind, studio rituals, and questions about trade and labour.
May 28, 2024
Michelle’s Stuart’s Niagara Gorge Path Relocated: The cyclical nature of the things
Case Study: Artists & researchers who shift perspectives on the material world.
April 25, 2024
Mayra Sergio on Coffee, Olive Oil & Pulverised Residue
Sergio is an artist who has developed many new processes through experimentation, trial and error, intrigue, looking to process grief, build belonging, and being very open to happy accidents
March 11, 2024
Bosco Sodi on Unpredictable Materials
The artist's work highlights the passing of time, and unpredictable processes that allow materials to behave in organic ways
March 7, 2024
Jun Zhang on Systems & Stories
The artist discusses mythology, extraction, looking at the world through a non-anthropocentric lens, and researching the significant and varied roles of urine
March 6, 2024
The Metamorphosis of Matter
Exhibition Text: The first Mater exhibition, 2024, Amsterdam
February 14, 2024
Deborah Tchoudjinoff on Virtual Worlds and Fictions
Deborah’s work de-centres the human and engages with research on minerals and speculative fictions. We discuss a diverse range of projects involving mineral mapping, augmented reality and gaming engines
October 23, 2023
Janne Schimmel on Gaming Devices
Investigating the inner workings of old computers and modular gaming-computer building. Janne talks about gaming as a participatory culture, the planned obsolescence of computers, animating and bringing soft qualities to devices.
September 28, 2023
Catinca Malaimare on Leather
We walk through Catinca Malaimare's exhibition Astropriest at Brooke Benington, discussing saddles and leather jackets as pre-used objects that hold bodies
September 12, 2023
Jindřiška Jabůrková on Rubble & Weathered Buildings
Working with the transformation of materials to highlight matter as a living substance. We also speak about concrete, human hair, New materialsms and spirituality
August 30, 2023
Rajyashri Goody on Pulp & Porcelain
A conversation about Dalit histories and the caste system, and how experimenting with materials can be used to tell stories
August 30, 2023
Laura Cinti: C-LAB
On Bio art, living materials, and a search for one of the most endangered organisms on Earth
July 1, 2023
Hanneke ter Horst on Plants & Pigments
This conversation with Hanneke describes beautifully the pull that certain materials can have on people
February 23, 2023
Tom Pope on Photography
Participation, research, play, performance, and ferns. We discuss the artist's photography practice
February 13, 2023
Razia Barsatie on Food
Researching the histories of food, and using them as art materials
January 9, 2023
Lieve Hakkers on Paint
Lieve Hakkers discusses pigments, egg tempera, and how making paint has affected their work
December 8, 2022
Marlies Augustijn on Water
Marlies Augustijn is a curator, currently based in Rotterdam. We speak about her most recent curatorial project Still Waters Run Deep, a group exhibition at Amsterdam's NDSM Warf.
October 19, 2022
Christian Keeve on Seeds
The cooperative geographies and political ecologies of participatory seed networks.
September 30, 2022
Miriam Sentler: Deep Time Agency
Miriam Sentler's recent project explores a quarry in Maastricht, and how this relates to the cement industry through layers of time.
September 22, 2022
Emma Witter on Bone
Mater speaks to artist Emma Witter about bone: sculpting with it, what it's made from, and how to prepare it
September 22, 2022
Grant Gibson: Material Matters
The Material Matters fair launches in London this week. Mater talks to one of the founders, Grant Gibson, about where his fascination for materials came from.
September 21, 2022