Embracing the spirit of collaboration as a means to expand knowledge and skills, the breadth of techniques and references used across Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice are the result of many collaborative ventures. Where his ceramics are influenced by working with artists in Europe and Brazil, his large-scale paintings, often installed like backdrops, tapestries, wall panels or suspended ceilings, assert matters of pleasure, colour, intimacy, and motion, as fundamental. Lutz-Kinoy’s work looks through a history of representation from the Rococo to Orientalism to Abstract Expressionism, challenging what constitutes the inside and the outside of the arts, the social and the self. At the core of Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is performance. Influenced by histories of queer and collaborative practice as well as his background in theatre and choreography, his live work explores the interplay of narratives that are created and constructed between individuals and social spaces.