Golgotha Graphics is the webspace for Matt Godden, an artist, designer, graphic novellist, teacher and student based in Sydney, Australia.

As an artist I'm interested in comics and graphic novels, sculpture, drawing, photography, really anything that provides a creative outlet. For the past few years I've been working part time towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney, where I've specialised towards sculpture and photography.

In graphic novels, I've been working on a book, Surfing The Deathline, for a few years. It's a story focusing on popular media ideas about geopolitics, theocracy, faith, terrorism, poverty and isolation, in the face of growing machine intelligence and human obsolescence. Stylistically, it sits firmly in the aesthetic of early 1980's cyberpunk.

flight / fight

flight / fight was a first year college project for my second semester photography elective. It built upon shooting and darkroom skills from first semester, combined with experiments in photogrammery.

This project forms a sequential narrative, a journey through an ambiguous horror of medicine and mortality.

Repetition features heavily, elements are reused from image to image, and are massed in individual images. Most of the objects are in some way connected to repetition, each one of them a measure of time.

flight / fight was a part of my solo exhibition Nervous Spaces.

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