Purple Heart (Abbottabad), 2015/6

 

Plaster, scaffold pole, Plastic bin, Car-Vinyl Wrap 

Dimensions Variable 

The aroma of the Bin Laden strain is as provocative as its name, offering a complex bouquet that is both pungent and subtly sweet. Users often describe the fragrance as a blend of earthy musk with underlying notes of spice and a hint of citrus.  In many panel tests, about 85% of evaluators noted that the scent possessed a robust earthy overtone with a soft, floral enhancement. This detailed olfactory profile has been compared by some connoisseurs to a robust, aged incense reminiscent of classic underground strains.  When it comes to flavor, the strain delivers a smooth smoke imbued with deep herbal tones that evolve into a gentle sweetness on the exhale. The palate is treated to a series of layered tastes that include hints of pine, spice, and occasionally a whisper of nutty richness. Such a well-rounded flavor profile makes Bin Laden a favorite among those who appreciate both complexity and consistency in their cannabis. 

S..OS., 2015

carambole billiards red ball, artificial crimson funeral roses, half-face imitation skull helmet, cnc cut industrial rubber, reflexive car-vinyl, steel wire

dimensions variable 

How to Run Like the Elites, 2015

 

Nike FreeRun 5.0 sand-cast aluminium, wire, fixings 

IDS (RAL 3020), 2016

 

 Scaffold pole, Plaster, RAL 3020 paint

Dimensions Variable

In 2016, I was invited to exhibit in a studio and project space in South East England. I had prepared a sculpture consisting of an inverted head of Iain Duncan Smith, painted in emergency-exit red and fixed to a scaffold pole. The work drew upon the customary and symbolic violence of displaying a head on a spike. I initially intended to install it on the roof, where it would operate as a public, quasi-monumental image.During the exhibition, however, it became clear that the agreed artist fee had somehow 'dematerialised' within the curatorial organisation. In response, I abandoned the roof installation and placed the sculpture in the building's only staff toilet for the duration of the show.

As the relocation changed the work from a representation of political violence into conceptual device of the exhibition's labour relations, as the three curators were required to invigilate the exhibition as part of the exchange, they were repeatedly obliged to negotiate the sculpture in a space necessary to their own bodily maintenance. 

The work's minor vengeance was intentionally small, as it did nothing to recorrect the economic imbalance/ convert grievance into some heroic act of protest. The closest public toilet was 500ft away in the town centre in a Costa Coffee chain, which required them to purchase something of nominal value to constitute a customer and hence use the available toilet.

MB (draft/unfinished)

 

Reach the ground 

upon which we stand  

runs out its own colour  

careered bittered skies   

vertiginous without repose   

drops inside nobody  

the dol below algos 

to mercenaries   

closed annunciations 

dolorimeter & algometer 

dolor as sorrow; algos as pain 

ash in light trident in Bangor 

then you walk back to the city 

in their windows 

possibilities turn out to be snares 

& ambushes but one dies 

in the world & into the world

are fewer Matt Bisaro’s 

CITY POINT LIGHTS BLACK MINUTES, 2026

 

Screen print on paper

45cm x 50cm 

The News Machine: Milly Dowler as Glenn Mulcaire as a member of Blue (English group), 2021

 

Oil on Expensive European Fabric

45cmx35cm