With a career spanning art, film and advertising, Matthew Maxwell is a leading creative director, with a raft of awards under his belt including a Gold Cyber Lion in 2007 for Best Viral at Cannes.
Traditionally trained in Fine Art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, he has combined fine and applied art practices across numerous disciplines ever since. As an artist his work is represented in numerous private collections as well as the Tate Book collection, the Victoria & Albert, the FNAC and Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence and the Fowler Museum, UCLA.
In the late 1980s he moved to Hollywood as art director and production designer. His credits include four feature films as well as numerous commercials and music videos at the same time as painting and exhibiting in Los Angeles. He returned to Europe in 1995 and lived in Aix-en-Provence, working on the restoration of Paul Cézanne’s family home whilst developing his art work, showing increasingly digital and conceptual work in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Marseilles.
After moving back to London in 1997 he became increasingly engaged in interactive marketing as a designer and advertising creative. Currently with mobile specialists Sponge, he was formerly Creative Director, Digital at the global network DraftFCB.
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