We are pleased to announce the makers that have been selected for the third CKA x Krowji Project Space.
The CKA x Krowji Project Space offers one months use of a large space at Krowji for artists to focus on a project away from their usual working environment. These project space participants will also take part in Creative Kernow’s Krowji Showcase on 2nd and 3rd October 2026.
Andrew Bryant
Andrew Bryant is an artist and mentor based in Cornwall, UK. A former editor for a-n and Tate Online, he holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College and was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2022 and 2026. Informed by psychoanalysis, posthumanism and climate change, his work explores how surface and materiality shape perception, exposing and obscuring deeper structures.
Andrew’s paintings explore how surface, texture and materiality shape—and sometimes distort—our perception of the world. He is interested in how appearances can expose and obscure the deeper structures and dependencies through which objects, images and subjects are formed. Painting slows the image, testing what its surface allows us to see and what it leaves concealed.
Working from printed matter, the internet, photography and AI-generated hybrid imagery, Andrew makes paintings and occasional drawings of isolated objects that appear fragile, lacking or incomplete. They seem caught between function and failure, unable to act independently or suspended in a state of unresolved dependency. Their stillness allows uncertainty to gather around their identity, scale and purpose. Through them, he addresses contemporary fantasies of autonomy and self-sufficiency, while pointing towards the psychic, social, material and ecological conditions those fantasies seek to deny.
For Andrew, painting is a form of translation: a slow, attentive process through which an existing image is remade. He may spend months, sometimes years, on a single work, giving close attention to surface nuance while suppressing the visible trace of the brush or hand. This is less a pursuit of perfection than a means of questioning the value placed on originality, spontaneity and individual authorship. By drawing upon the languages of photography, reproduction and the copy, his paintings redirect attention away from the artist as originator and towards the technological, economic, unconscious and material structures through which images and subjects are produced.
His images often contain elements of staging and framing, subtly referring to art-making itself as a form of address. Like the objects they depict, the paintings remain incomplete, depending upon the viewer to produce meaning. Across the work, Andrew asks what lies beneath appearances and what forms of intelligence, desire and dependency exceed the self-sufficient human subject.
Matthew Thomason
Matthew Thomason is a composer, pianist and musical director based in Cornwall, whose work spans classical music, film, theatre and video games. He has become particularly known for his pioneering exploration of the Cornish language within contemporary classical music, most notably through Arlodhes a Shalott, his Cornish-language setting of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, created with translator Elizabeth Ellis.
Alongside his concert work, Matthew has composed for projects including the acclaimed video game Europa, the feature film Long Way Back, and numerous theatre and performance productions. His solo piano work has also taken him across Europe, with performances in cities including Venice, Helsinki, Edinburgh, Berlin and Brussels. His work is increasingly focused on bringing Cornwall’s language, landscape and cultural identity into new classical music and introducing Kernewek to new audiences. During his residency at Krowji, Matthew is developing his new Cornish language song-cycle Trystan hag Eseld, a new setting of the legendary love story Tristan and Isolde.
Top image by Huw Briscoe. Pictured work by Emma Saffy Wilson, previous project space participant.
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