BOOK LAUNCH: ‘INTO THE WYLD: RE-IMAGINING SIR GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHT’

Join us to celebrate the launch of the official catalogue capturing the creative journey of the artists involved with the Material Matters collective’s five-month residency Into the Wyld that thrilled audiences at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead in 2024. 

Into the Wyld:Re-imagining Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the comprehensive official catalogue record of the project, featuring vivid visual documentation and a series of specially commissioned essays, new creative writing, poetry, and full transcripts of selected performances. This strictly limited edition of 150 copies will retail at £35 but guests to the launch event on the 13th September 2025 can benefit from a special early bird price of £25.

The launch event will also include a re-screening of selected works by Material Matters artists specially created for the Into the Wyld exhibitions and a live performance. Please see below for details.

Event times:

11.00 –20.30: Digital Window Gallery + Into the Wyld installation to view in Mann Island atrium space. Works: The Three Blows: A View on Life and Death (2024) + Cleave | Cleave (2024) respectively by Material Matters artists Angelo Madonna and John Elcock 

17.30: Event starts

17.40: Welcome talks

18.00–20.30: Film screenings

20.30: Performance in atrium space

Film running order: The Three Blows: A View Of Life and Death Front (2024) by Material Matters artist Angelo Madonna

Act III - Interspecies: The Fairies (2024) by Material Matters artist Silvia Battista Green Chapel (2024) by Material Matters

Act II: The Knights of the 21st Century (2024) by Material Matters artist Silvia Battista Bod_j_ect: Conversations and Songs (2022) by Material Matters artist Angelo Madonna

In a Flat Field (2024) by Material Matters artist Patric Rogers

Soft Combat (2024) by Material Matters artist Patric Rogers with Craig Sinclair and Piotr Marchewka

Act I: Moons Lullaby For Humans (2024) by Material Matters artist Silvia Battista

By Flete (2024) by Anna jane Houghton & Abbie Bradshaw  Love Lace (2024) by Material Matters artist Angelo Madonna

The Three Blows: A View Of Life and Death (2024) by Material Matters artist Angelo Madonna

8.30 pm: Angelo Madonna Performance – Bod_j_ect: Conversations and Songs Re-enacted (2024)

The publication will be available to purchase throughout the evening.

Into the Wyld was produced in partnership with Wirral Borough of Culture 2024 and Liverpool Hope University. For 2025 we thank Patrick Kirk-Smith with the Independents Biennial and the Open Eye Gallery  for supporting the launch of the publication Into the Wyld: Re-imagining Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

MATERIAL MATTERS is an artists’ collective founded in 2018 and engaged in artistic and curatorial practices that explore the inter-relationship between materiality, aesthetics and performativity under a collaborative praxis we call emotional minimalism: the agency of materiality to elicit human emotions when enacted in devised spaces under modulated conditions.