Alicia Matthews, b.1988, Greenock
Alicia Matthews is an artist and audio maker living and working in the Outer Hebrides.
Past projects have used moving image, performance, sculpture and sound to explore technological hauntings, societal glitches, common land, geology and deep time - often as speculative fictions. Recent work uses haptics, text, drawing and ceramics to investigate the maternal body, witches, The Gaelic Otherworld and relationships between rusting detritus and blanketing bog.
Previous work has been exhibited and performed across the UK - including at Glasgow Tramway, Camden Arts Centre, Tate Modern and Tate Britain - as well as internationally at galleries and festivals in Lublin, Venice, Guangzhou and New York. Alicia holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art and an MSc (with Distinction) in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice from Glasgow University.
Past compositions have been commissioned by platforms including Jerwood Resonance, Present Futures and Radiophrenia.
Musical projects include Malaizy (Few Crackles), SUE ZUKI (Domestic Exile), LAPS (DFA records, MIC records) and Organs of Love (Optimo Music). Alicia co-runs the independent record label Domestic Exile and hosts a long-standing monthly show on NTS radio.
In October 2025, Alicia & Robbie Thomson founded HAAR Projects, an arts organisation focussing on the production of ambitious visual and sonic art projects that engage communities across the Western Isles and beyond.