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Mat Chivers

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Intuitive consciousness research
Devon, UK & Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada

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3 recent drawings included in Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx at Centre d’artistes Agrégat, open until this Saturday 15th

Untitled
2025
Pencil on paper, birch ply and maple support
38 cm H x 28 cm W taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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3 recent drawings included in Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx at Centre d’artistes Agrégat until this Saturday 15th

Untitled
2025
Pencil on paper, birch ply and maple support
38 cm H x 28 cm W

📷 @davidhurteau taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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Becoming Field (E)
2025
Pencil on paper
80 cm H x 60 cm W x 5 cm D

Currently on view at Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx at Centre d’artistes Agrégat, Atrium of The University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus, 150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil, Québec, Canada. Wednesday to Friday 11 am - 6 pm and Saturday 12 - 5 pm until 15th August 2026 taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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Becoming Field (D)
2025
Pencil on paper
80 cm H x 60 cm W x 5 cm D

Currently on view at Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx at Centre d’artistes Agrégat, Atrium of The University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus, 150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil, Québec, Canada. Wednesday to Friday 11 am - 6 pm and Saturday 12 - 5 pm until 15th August 2026 taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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Becoming Field (C)
2025
Pencil on paper
80 cm H x 60 cm W x 5 cm D

Currently on view at Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx at Centre d’artistes Agrégat, Atrium of The University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus, 150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil, Québec, Canada. Wednesday to Friday 11 am - 6 pm and Saturday 12 - 5 pm until 15th August 2026 taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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Each artwork is created by one of us, whilst the overall installation is the fruit of our collaboration. We see the exhibition as a temporary coalescence that constitutes a single work in itself

The works presented here span a range of material approaches, united by a shared exploration of the nature of consciousness.
Central to our practices is the understanding that making matters not because it produces objects, but because it changes the conditions of perception. In this sense, perception itself becomes a creative act

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Chaque œuvre est créée par l'un de nous, tandis que l'installation dans son ensemble est le fruit de notre collaboration. Nous envisageons l'exposition comme une coalescence temporaire qui constitue une œuvre à part entière

Les œuvres présentées ici couvrent un éventail d'approches matérielles, unies par une exploration commune sur la nature de la conscience. Ce qui compte dans nos pratiques, ce n'est pas tant la production d'objets, mais la manière dont l'acte de créer transforme les conditions de la perception. En ce sens, la perception elle-même devient un acte créatif.

Phénomènes on view until 15th august
Open Wednesday to Friday 11 am - 6 pm and Saturday 12 - 5 pm

Centre d'artistes Agrégat, Atrium of The University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus,
150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil, Québec, Canada

Image credits
@davidhurteau taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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On vous propose de plonger dans l'univers de l’exposition Phénomènes avec Corine Lemieux et Mat Chivers (malgré le bruit des travaux à l'Atrium) !

Les artistes nous parlent de ce corpus hybride réunissant pour la première fois leur pratique qui évolue en parallèle depuis plusieurs années.

L'exposition est à visiter jusqu’au 15 août !

⏱️Mercredi à vendredi : 11h – 18h
Samedi : 12h – 17h

📍 Agrégat à l'Atrium de l'Université de Sherbrooke – Campus Longueuil
150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil by @matchivers

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Sharing here a selection from some of the new pieces I made using magnetism and gravity in the run-up to Phénomènes with @corinelemieuxx showing now @centre_dartistes_agregat

For me these objects inhabit a space that’s somewhere between sculpture and drawing - kitchen table physics thinking about some of the unseen but ever-present forces that shape our experience of reality

The 5 pieces documented here are:

Images 1-4

Matter Tells Space How To Curve, Space Tells Matter How To Move
2026
Porcelain
19 cm H x 24 cm W x 6.5 cm D

Matter Tells Space How To Curve, Space Tells Matter How To Move
2026
Porcelain
23 cm H x 19 cm W x 7 cm D

Images 1 & 5

Matter Tells Space How To Curve, Space Tells Matter How To Move
2026
Porcelain, iron
41 cm H x 29 cm W x 0.5 cm D

Image 6

Matter Tells Space How To Curve, Space Tells Matter How To Move
2026
Porcelain, iron
21.5 cm L x 9 cm H x 19 cm W

Image 7

Matter Tells Space How To Curve, Space Tells Matter How To Move
2026
Porcelain, iron
19.5 cm L x 7.5 cm H x 19 cm W

Images 1-3,6 & 7 credit @davidhurteau taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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Just saw the first of @rpjnicholson two-part documentary 100: All Things to All People that draws from archival footage and audio recordings from the mid nineteen-twenties when the Elmhirsts transformed Dartington Hall (Devon,UK) into a cultural project that seems radical even today. A holistic approach to human wellness grounded in the understanding that happiness ensues when each human has the means to express themselves creatively. Influenced by and involving some of the greatest teachers and creative minds in the world at the time, this philosophy led to radically experimental performing and visual arts, educational models and sustainable land-based industries that kept the surrounding villages in work in a time of mass rural unemployment

I’m super-excited to be part of that ongoing tradition as I start work at @dartingtontrust on a new stone sculpture titled Biophilia, recently commissioned by @aspacearts for Hearth House, Southampton, UK

I last carved stone by hand on residency in South Africa @niroxfoundation in 2015. One stormy evening as I was starting work on the sculpture I made there (Changing My Mind (6)) flying ants (Eastern subterranean termites) suddenly congregated on the dolomitic boulder it was made from (4) then disappeared as fast as they’d come, leaving cast-wings over the boulder and floor (5). I’d just finished setting up my shelter over the block of Stoneshill Whitbed (1&2) that arrived from @albionstone in Portland yesterday, and the same thing happened again (3). For half an hour at sunset the block swarmed with winged ants. The entanglement of those two moments in time seems significant taken in South West Devon by @matchivers

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with the excellent team @infravert to install Genius Loci in its home. Sharing some post-install imagery here - light had nearly gone by the time we’d finished, so looking forward to getting it documented well soon

I visited the site for the first time in late summer nearly three years ago. I sat out on the land for a long time - listening, looking, absorbing. I felt the seed of the sculpture start to germinate. I visited the land in summer, autumn, winter and spring. I’ve met some of the many species who call it home. I knew I wanted to approach it as an ecosystem. In a simple solo ritual, I introduced myself to the land and described my intention - inviting the land to participate, to work through me. I feel the land has been generous - not only in terms of the way it has manifested in this work but also how it has been a catalyst for a new language of form that echoes in the work I’ve made since

Genius Loci
2025
Bronze
2.6 m H x 1.9 m W x 1.9 m D including base taken in Quebec, Canada by @matchivers

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Pleased to be able to share recent documentation of our exhibition that’s currently running in Canada at Centre d’artistes Agrégat. Phénomènes marks the first time we’ve shown our work together

We live and work between Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada and rural Devon in the UK - our parallel practices evolving in dialogue with one another over time and space. Our way of working is simultaneous and meaningfully entangled - each influenced by the exploration of the other. The exhibition title comes from the Greek phainomenon - the point at which something appears, and through our perceiving it, enters into experience

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Nous sommes ravis de pouvoir partager quelques images récentes de notre exposition actuellement présentée au Centre d’artistes Agrégat, au Canada. Phénomènes marque la première fois que nous exposons ensemble.

Nous vivons et travaillons entre Montréal et la campagne du Devon, au Royaume-Uni — nos pratiques parallèles évoluant en dialogue l’une avec l’autre à travers le temps et l’espace. Le titre de l’exposition provient du grec phainomenon; le moment à partir duquel une chose apparaît et, à travers notre perception de celle-ci, entre dans l’expérience

Wednesday to Friday 11 am - 6 pm and Saturday 12 - 5 pm until 15th August 2026

Centre d’artistes Agrégat, Atrium of The University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus, 150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil, Québec, Canada

Thanks to

@centre_dartistes_agregat
@toomanysonjazlatanovaoverthere
@atelierclark
@centreclark
@martinschopencadrement
@nsylvestre
@massimo.guerrera
@oliviawalker_ceramics

Image credits

@davidhurteau taken in Agrégat centre d'artistes by @matchivers

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[Retour en images]

Le 28 mai dernier nous avons eu le plaisir de partager avec vous un événement spécial, le vernissage de Phénomènes, première exposition commune de Corine Lemieux et Mat Chivers, et l’inauguration de la murale participative réalisée par Sarah Cloutier. Replongez dans cette soirée en images !

Vous pouvez désormais venir visiter l’exposition à l’Atrium et ce jusqu’au 15 août. La fresque de Sarah ornera nos murs extérieurs jusqu’en 2027.

🗓️ 28 mai au 15 août
🕐 Mercredi - vendredi : 11h - 18h
Samedi : 12h - 17h

📍 Agrégat à l’Atrium de l’Université de Sherbrooke – Campus Longueuil
150 Place Charles-Le Moyne, Longueuil by @matchivers

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