Matthew Hearn

Matthew Hearn is a curator and Associate Lecturer in Arts at Northumbria University where he coordinates and curates the exhibition programme at Gallery North. He has a long-standing interest in archives, and his PhD developed in collaboration with Locus+ Archive, explored the regional and international significance of a 30 year programme of time and place-based programming developed in the North East of England. In 2021 he co-curated the exhibition, Sally Madge: Acts of Reclamation and co-authored a paper, Sally Madge: acts of reclamation and renewal between site, studio, archive and gallery, published in Journal of Visual Art Practice with Ysanne Holt.