Matt Ager (b. 1985, London, England) uses salvaged objects and household materials to create sculptures. He is especially interested in writing pieces that deal with mimicry, architecture, and design. Agers's practice constantly explores and manifests his conviction that certain identities are carried by objects and textures. His manner of thought is centered around "making." The work develops and embodies a societal conversation by utilizing both straightforward and complex production techniques in conjunction with an assortment of pre-existing materials. You wouldn't think that the materials lists for his works—shoe laces, door stops, formica, steel, tabletops, and MDF—were what he used to create them. His sculptures, on the other hand, are exquisite, an apparently easy fusion of the high and the low, kitsch and class.

This redefining is the focus of Ager's work, which typically makes use of assisted ready-mades and creates tales centered on taste and social status out of seemingly ordinary materials.

The creation of the piece reflects the idea of the "unknown" in how we form interactions with objects and people. Not knowing the outcome that is possible. Reworking, swapping out, and remoulding are essential.

Matt Ager earned his BA in sculpture from Camberwell College of Art and his diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in 2015. Stampede, Horse & Pony Fine Art, Berlin (2021); Clay TM, TJ Boulting, London (2020); Usable Space Gallery, Milwaukee, USA (2019); Bare Elegance, Lungley, London (2019); OH I KNOW WHY, Sundy, London (2018); High Gallery, Poznan, Poland (2018), Sleeping Procession curated by Sean Steadman and Gabriel Hartley, CASS Sculpture Foundation, (2017); Closer to the Veg, London (2016); GUSTO Studio Leigh, London (2016); Maybe Your Lens is Scratched, Averard Hotel, London (2016); Either Those Curtains, Fold (2016); Wrongguns, Agency Agency, Brussels (2016); Is it Heavy or Is it Light, Assembly Point, London (2016); Sunday School #11, curated by Amanprit Sandhu (2015).