Will the real public artist please stand up! Mixed media, 2004
“Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour” Matt Dabrowski is a practicing artist based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dabrowski’s practice focuses on exploring cross-disciplinary and interstitial arrangements to provide new systems for advancing complex and ambiguous hypotheses. Notions such as the human condition, the absurdity of consumer fetishism and environmental responsibility are common themes preferably dealt with a poetic and surreal aesthetic. This is conveyed via site-specific, live and ephemeral events; installation; sound; art objects/ sculpture; photography; artists’ books; video; etc. Process and context are major considerations in the heuristic approach and development of Dabrowski’s conveyances, favouring satire, humour and irony to subvert the agencies of the Spectacle. The predominant motivation in creating the work is to shift perspective to avoid engaging popular schemata that dispossess us from meaningful experience, fellowship and social connectedness. His work utilizes authentically crafted or collected materials with an emphasis on collaborative activities that are imbued with a quality of life and activity, which allude to the exuberance naturally occurring in shared space and time.
