Collab with The Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize winner and Grammy nominee Arlo Parks with the piece I painted for her
I had the pleasure of creatively collaborating with BBC Music on the 2021 Mercury Prize.
Known for my small, unique paintings, I was approached by the Mercury Prize team with the idea, and we collaborated on look, vision, and creative deliverables – concepting the idea, painting the pieces, editing content, and physically getting the pieces over to London from a small hole-in-the-wall Post Office outside of Rocky Mountain National Park while on my cross-country road trip.
The result:
A few weeks after mailing out the last physical paintings thousands of miles away to London, the 2021 Mercury Prize show was streamed to 1.4+ million, and I watched my paintings be presented to and opened by the respective nominees.
The 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize album covers as you've never seen them before! Incredible tiny Shortlisted albums by @mattacrylic 🎨#HyundaiMercuryPrize pic.twitter.com/K4r9U5tqIg
— Mercury Prize (@MercuryPrize) September 8, 2021