Chloe Dewe Mathews
Photographic artist and filmmaker
Dewe Mathews studied fine art at Camberwell College of Arts and the University of Oxford, and dedicated herself to photography after working in the feature film industry.
Having exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Dresden’s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dewe Mathews’ work is internationally recognised, and she has been widely published in The Guardian, The New Yorker, Le Monde and the Financial Times.
Dewe Mathews’s books include Caspian: the Elements and In Search of Frankenstein.
She is the recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and her work is held in public collections such as the British Council Art Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland and the Irish State Art Collection.
You could say that a river runs through the latest book by the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews – in more ways than one. Thames Log is a series of images made by Dewe Mathews between 2011 and 2016 – images that are sequenced in book form in a very interesting way. The viewer’s journey starts at the head of the River Thames near Kemble in Gloucestershire and ends at the Thames estuary, where the river flows into the North Sea. But the photographs flow through the volume by going against the normal conventions
