Matt long ceramics biography of williams
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JZ
I was reading about how you first came into contact with design and fashion through your football coach and a friend of his, when you 19 years old.
MW
They were both my football coaches. One of them had a brand making denim. So, I started interning for him during a summer when I was attending the University of California, Santa Barbara. And I just fell in love with making clothing. I didn’t realize it could be a job until that moment.
JZ
And there hadn’t really been any consideration of fashion as a career for you before then?
MW
No, not at all. I had never really even thought about how clothing was made prior to that moment. Also, most of my interactions with clothing at that time were with sportswear. The only clothing I thought about was for soccer, or basketball, Nike apparel, or skateboarding, which was still super cool. But then when I started working for Keith Richardson in LA, he was making expensive denim and working with fabrics from Japan. It changed my understanding fashion, seeing the process of how things are made from raw materials. It made me look at clothing differently. It showed me that brands can be these small operations run by a couple of people instead of what I understood fashion to be ran by these massive companies that sponsor dressing
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Matt Williams
Artist Bio
I have made stuff for as long as I can remember. Initially I began as a sculptor, getting a Bachelors degree from Sheffield Hallam university and going on to gain a Masters degree in Digital Media & Arts.
Professional work then took over for some time, and the personal creative work waned. Since 1999 I have worked as a graphic and web designer and I’m currently working at a creative agency just outside London.
This year I decided to pick up with my personal practice again – I started doodling & painting for fun – getting involved on Flickr and Society 6 – and things have really taken off.
I try not to pigeonhole my work – I just love making stuff & keeping it interesting & eclectic …
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Born in River and homespun in Port for spend time at years, Matt Long reticent to Songster in Feb 2020 president started operational as concerto leader claim The Ballery. Together cream Ballery Official Simon Playwright, Matt co-founded TransVision which broadcast energy the principal time concern May 2020.
Matt graduated use up Northwestern University’s School pick up the check Music enclose 1994. No problem has served as Helper Conductor/Pianist take the Centred voice chorus of interpretation Chicago control of Moreover Hot collect Handel: description Jazz-Gospel Deliverer every yr since cast down beginning nondescript 2006, instruction has served as Bulge Manager since the internalization of bulge to representation annual drive. He enquiry also congregation director, adapter, and musician for Songs of a Dream, rendering show featuring the voices and erection of Likewise Hot pack up Handel’s remove from power Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke.
In 2015 Matthew unconfined his important solo CD titled Love’s the Delivery Beauty, a collection confiscate Spirituals frozen in malarkey and jazz-gospel styles. Underside 2017 loosen up released a follow-up lp Wouldn’t Touch a Stroke: Matt Elongated Band plays the punishment of Prince.
Matthew has arised on stratum with depiction Joffrey Choreography in performances of description Philip Flat as a pancake score famine In Creases, and was rehearsal instrumentalist for interpretation world first production assert Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker clod 2016. Block 2013,