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Matt Lyon: My Place

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My Place by Matt Lyon

 
The tale of the tape

Matt Lyon Basingstoke, England

Who am I? Matt Lyon, a.k.a. TekCadet

Where am I? Suburban Hell

Matt Lyon was born in Basingstoke, England in 1971, and despite a few years in the wilderness has now returned to the suburban utopia. He graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art in 1995, and upon his release has remained in education to propagate his skills to a new generation of artists.

Suburban Hell is a thematic project that has been in development for the past four years. It has inspired the creation of a variety of works across a range of media, mainly towards print design and singular outcomes.

 What the judges said

DR : Man, this is dark. Creepy.

JP : It makes you think of blood and gore, but there actually isn’t any. It just hints at the horror - like an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

BB : Where did that scary clawing hand come from?

DW : It’s all that remains of that sweet girl with the “Love” shirt. (Laughs maniacally.)

DR : I love the awkwardly kerned type. I’m a sucker for the screen-printing look. I rate this: fairly rad.

JP : I like the curlicues made from swashy bits of type.

DW : He dug deep into the typeface to find the suggestive little crown and the arrows.

BB : The composition matches the mysterious mood - I keep trying to piece the puzzle together.

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