Matthew Rosier

Announcing Salford Everywhere, an ambitious public artwork project that will paint a video portrait of Salfordians from across the city, projected as giants moving across its buildings, weaving together people and place, produced by @fromtheother._ 🏙️ Created by award winning artist @mfprosier , whose work blends film, sound and community collaboration, Salford Everywhere will culminate in a city gathering at Peel Park to celebrate Salford's people on its 100th birthday. The film will be projected, forming a monumental living portrait that will light up the city this autumn, accompanied by a bespoke live mix from Salford based Radio 6Music presenter and DJ @afrodeutsche #SalfordEverywhere #Salford100 #SalfordCentenary #VisitSalford #PublicArt

People of Salford, are you ready to make this a year to remember? 💯 We officially gained city status 100 years ago, and to celebrate we're hosting a season of live events throughout the city to enjoy together as a community, in partnership with @fromtheother._ & @WalkThePlankArts . Featuring: 🎵 Songs of Salford - A brand new record dedicated to our fair city, created collaboratively with Salford artists and producers @strategyyeah @meduulla @thethirstypoet_co @salo.mcr @samsethmusic @officialche3kz 🪩 The Wagon Train - A travelling wagon bringing pop-up events, activities and performances to every neighbourhood within Salford 🌇 Salford Everywhere - A major multimedia portrait of Salford's communities, premiering 9th & 10th October @mfprosier @afrodeutsche @companychameleon @izzy_pye 🎉 Plus a range of other community events across the city Click the link in our bio for full details & follow for more announcements coming soon. #Salford100 #SalfordPride #Salford #VisitSalford #SalfordCentenary

📣Share your story (paid) Artist Matthew Rosier and UP Projects are looking for ten people to share the story of how they came to live in Barnet.  You might speak about a journey across countries, generations, or a more recent move. These stories will become part of ‘Ascendance’, a new public artwork for Barnet’s ‘Light + Flight’ programme. 💵 £125 fee for a 1-hour audio recording session with travel expenses covered 💫Your story will become part of a soundscape + large-scale projection artwork celebrating Barnet’s communities Who can apply? We’re looking for people who have a story of themselves or their family making Barnet their home. We’re especially keen to hear from older residents, but all ages are welcome. No previous creative experience is needed. 🔗 Find out more and apply via the link in bio ️ Deadline: Midnight, 7 June Light + Flight is presented by Art in Barnet. It is supported by a Cultural Impact Award, part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture programme. It is made possible with additional support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. @mfprosier @upprojects @barnetcouncil @acegrams @heritagefunduk @mayorofldn

Swimming, fishing & dancing Berwick Parade, 2025 Photos: @jennifercharltonphotography Video: @mfprosier @coalfield_studios

We are thrilled to announce that award-winning artist Matthew Rosier and leading socially engaged public art organisation @upprojects will be bringing a major new artwork to Barnet this year! Large-scale projection, oral histories, nature recordings, an original score, and community participation will all be part of this highly ambitious artwork that explores Barnet’s role as a place of arrival and a home. The artwork, Ascendance, will be unveiled in November 2026, during a free multi-day arts and culture festival forming the celebratory finale of the Light + Flight programme. “As an artist drawn to how places and people came to be, it’s so exciting to be creating an artwork that will make this visible. Barnet to me represents what I love about my home city: the multitudes of stories, journeys and landscapes that somehow hold each other together. This is what we will come together to celebrate in Ascendance.” – @mfprosier Sign up to our Arts & Culture newsletter to stay updated on all things Ascendance and upcoming opportunities to get involved. 🔗 in our bio. #LightAndFlight #ArtInBarnet #CreativeCommunities Light + Flight is presented by Art in Barnet. It is supported by a Cultural Impact Award, part of the @mayorofldn ’s London Borough of Culture programme. It is made possible with additional support from @heritagefunduk and @aceagrams . Image credits, in the order they appear: Matthew Rosier, Berwick Parade. Photo by Carl Joyce Matthew Rosier, City of Trees. Photo by Ben Broomfield Matthew Rosier, Luton Henge, 2025. Photo by Roo Lewis Headshot of Matthew Rosier, 2025. Photo by Roo Lewis Matthew Rosier, Keppels Column, 2025. Photo by Matthew Rosier Matthew Rosier, Luton Henge, 2025. Photo by Roo Lewis Matthew Rosier, Berwick Parade, 2025. Photo by Jennifer Charlton Matthew Rosier, Luton Henge, 2025. Photo by Roo Lewis

Berwick has hosted parades for centuries — military, civic, ceremonial. 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 draws on those histories, shifting the focus from authority to everyday presence and collective creativity.

Almost a year later, here’s the film of Berwick Parade. With public art there’s always a question of how much you let go of knowing the outcome, this project was a big experiment in that. Together with an amazing team, we set up a (sort of) simple structure: everyone was filmed in the same way and projected at a large scale, with live music. What the 850 participants brought to it — their fearlessness, humour, rhythm, creativity — was beyond anything we could have planned. Without that, there would’ve been no project. When the work was shown, some people told me it wasn’t normal for so many people to participate in something like this in Berwick. That surprised me, because it felt entirely normal given my experience of the town. But if it isn’t, then I guess that’s why public art exists. I’m excited to keep exploring this idea in other places — large video portraits of people moving through the buildings they encounter every day. Huge thanks to my incredible collaborators: choreographer @chloesayersartist and videographer @coalfield_studios . To @maltingsberwick @berwickshines for your trust and support and to the most amazing production team @l_velvick @cloudsartist @nickyredhair @heroic_hoodini @_georgiacurry0 and Caitlin Davidson. The musicians, particularly Sam Lord and the Melrose Pipe Band. And of course, to everyone in Berwick-upon-Tweed who took part.

This morning I was reading an article about how we are at a turning point with social media, where everyone agrees something is wrong, even while participating (the irony of my posting this here is not lost on me). Then I remembered short film I’d made (with my silly voice) which is probably the most honest thing I’ve ever made. It was a rip on a film about the social lift of real town squares made in the 1960s by socialist William Whyte. I made this during Covid, with too much time on my hands, and a feeling that something was crystallising with social media. Since 2014 I’d tried to create work that used technology to create moments of connection and coming together in real life. As I still do. My naive response to the enormity of a wholesale move of life online. A belief that these moments of coming together can somehow counteract the dopamine driven attention economy unleashed upon us. A nativity I’ll hold onto my whole life, I hope. Social media gotten so much worse since I made this that it’s created an ambivalence, a sense of powerlessness, so different to those heady Covid times. I hope the article I read this morning is on to something, that we’ve reached a digital saturation point, But in the meantime, here’s to keeping it real ✌🏻 Music by the brilliant @martino.g of @parachutewords

Making of Luton Henge A beautiful film documenting the creation process of Luton Henge and the opening festival. Featuring interviews with @raheed_s , @lindsey_pugh_ of @revolutonarts , and myself ft a topknot. The film was created by Jim Dawson and @raychan_photo of @tripledotmakers for @naturecalling25 . A lot of love in this film, thank you everyone. Credits: Lead artist: @mfprosier Producing Partner: @revolutonarts Creative Producer: @lucille5050 Commissioned by: @chilternsnl in partnership with @natlandassoc , @activate_parts and @thepoetryschool as part of @naturecalling25 Lead contractor & workshop facilitator: @_commonpractice with @sacredtreespirit Groundworks contractor: @farren_contractors_ltd Nature Calling poet: Lee Nelson Community steering group: Luton Henge Collective Funded by: @aceagrams and @defrauk Special thanks: @wildlifebcn @lutoncouncil Photography: @roolewis Filming: Jim Dawson & @raychan_photo of @tripledotmakers Music by @lauraemisch

1. Drawing of Stone Henge, age 5 2. Photo of Luton Henge, age 35 3. At Henge Fest, July 25 4. Henge flowers, June 25 5. Site pre-Henge, Jan 2nd 2025

Luton Henge (circa 2025) Drone shots by Ray Chan

Luton Henge Photograph by @roolewis @revolutonarts @chilternsnl @naturecalling25 @lucille5050 @_commonpractice @activate_parts