Matty Bovan's hand-knit installations bring his surreal world to NOW Gallery

Matty Bovan weaves poetic aggression through vast hand-knit installations at NOW Gallery Translating worn design into towering knitted structures, to be experienced from within, award-winning fashion designer Matty Bovan moves into a different medium for his first exhibition, on display at London’s NOW Gallery. Filling floor-to-ceiling with large-scale textile art, RIBBONS sees the York-based designer scale up his craft as artist, with hand-knitted ribbons forming the skeleton of cavernous, amorphous forms in 3-D – juxtaposing fantasy and reality in what he describes as an exploration of “aggressive colour, aggressive texture, and storytelling”...read more on www.nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness