Lisa Matthews, PhD
@poetech.bsky.social
Senior content design professional and neuro-inclusive digital accessibility consultant by day. Creative Writing academic • Asemics and sculpture• Deer @ copperhart_arts • Collage @voila_ici • Latest book “Hartsongs” with BlueprintPress.
“Dwell” is my latest co-exhibition with Melanie Ashby. The accompanying book is a limited ed (50 copies) catalog-chapbook hybrid of Mel’s paintings and my text block panels. When they’re gone they’re gone: £12.95, inc UK ppp (non-UK orders DM). Stripe link for secure payment: tinyurl.com/4u5hervy
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“Dwell” is my latest co-exhibition with Melanie Ashby. The accompanying book is a limited ed (50 copies) catalog-chapbook hybrid of Mel’s paintings and my text block panels. When they’re gone they’re gone: £12.95, inc UK ppp (non-UK orders DM). Stripe link for secure payment: tinyurl.com/4u5hervy
Blue frog.
White light.
White light.
October 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Blue frog.
White light.
White light.
Art weekend; Pt 3
Balkan Erotic Epic at #AvivaStudios
Felt at home the moment I went in and found my groove (and I sometimes struggle with crowds, noise an chaos).
Not here.
Don’t think I can go on making art in the same way now.
[insert what you know about performance art here]
Balkan Erotic Epic at #AvivaStudios
Felt at home the moment I went in and found my groove (and I sometimes struggle with crowds, noise an chaos).
Not here.
Don’t think I can go on making art in the same way now.
[insert what you know about performance art here]
October 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Art weekend; Pt 3
Balkan Erotic Epic at #AvivaStudios
Felt at home the moment I went in and found my groove (and I sometimes struggle with crowds, noise an chaos).
Not here.
Don’t think I can go on making art in the same way now.
[insert what you know about performance art here]
Balkan Erotic Epic at #AvivaStudios
Felt at home the moment I went in and found my groove (and I sometimes struggle with crowds, noise an chaos).
Not here.
Don’t think I can go on making art in the same way now.
[insert what you know about performance art here]
Art weekend; Pt 2
On Sat we saw #MarinaAbramović talk about her new work showing at #AvivaStudios in Manchester. She looked beautiful, older (don’t we all) and very ordinary (why wouldn’t she). And it was a joy. Her work’s a revelation that I only truly saw after The Artist is Present.
On Sat we saw #MarinaAbramović talk about her new work showing at #AvivaStudios in Manchester. She looked beautiful, older (don’t we all) and very ordinary (why wouldn’t she). And it was a joy. Her work’s a revelation that I only truly saw after The Artist is Present.
October 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Art weekend; Pt 2
On Sat we saw #MarinaAbramović talk about her new work showing at #AvivaStudios in Manchester. She looked beautiful, older (don’t we all) and very ordinary (why wouldn’t she). And it was a joy. Her work’s a revelation that I only truly saw after The Artist is Present.
On Sat we saw #MarinaAbramović talk about her new work showing at #AvivaStudios in Manchester. She looked beautiful, older (don’t we all) and very ordinary (why wouldn’t she). And it was a joy. Her work’s a revelation that I only truly saw after The Artist is Present.
Art weekend; Pt1.
My new exhibition — “Dwell” — (with Mel, she’s the paint, I’m the words) is on at the Wilmslow Guild For Lifelong Learning. Last Friday we had a mid-exhibition viewing. 14 people came. And over the course of its time at The Guild, 1000s of folk will experience it. #art #poetry
My new exhibition — “Dwell” — (with Mel, she’s the paint, I’m the words) is on at the Wilmslow Guild For Lifelong Learning. Last Friday we had a mid-exhibition viewing. 14 people came. And over the course of its time at The Guild, 1000s of folk will experience it. #art #poetry
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If you are near Wilmslow in greater Manchester tomorrow night and like paintings and poetry, we are celebrating our
Med-inspired exhibition DWELL at the Guild for Lifelong Learning (in Wilmslow 😉 ) Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm. Join us for art, words and extreme GIN! Just like fiesta time in Menorca 🍸
Med-inspired exhibition DWELL at the Guild for Lifelong Learning (in Wilmslow 😉 ) Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm. Join us for art, words and extreme GIN! Just like fiesta time in Menorca 🍸
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you are near Wilmslow in greater Manchester tomorrow night and like paintings and poetry, we are celebrating our
Med-inspired exhibition DWELL at the Guild for Lifelong Learning (in Wilmslow 😉 ) Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm. Join us for art, words and extreme GIN! Just like fiesta time in Menorca 🍸
Med-inspired exhibition DWELL at the Guild for Lifelong Learning (in Wilmslow 😉 ) Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm. Join us for art, words and extreme GIN! Just like fiesta time in Menorca 🍸
“Starmer’s government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £200,000,000 for Elbit. Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.”
This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.”
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“Starmer’s government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £200,000,000 for Elbit. Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.”
This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.”
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WFH downside. Important call @ 10:00. 🐱 decides to bring up an only partially-digested largish mammal in three separate sites around the house: one section right by my standing desk.
[Artwork: Edward Allington; One Unforgiving Minute - Manchester Art Gallery]
#cats
WFH downside. Important call @ 10:00. 🐱 decides to bring up an only partially-digested largish mammal in three separate sites around the house: one section right by my standing desk.
[Artwork: Edward Allington; One Unforgiving Minute - Manchester Art Gallery]
#cats
July 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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WFH downside. Important call @ 10:00. 🐱 decides to bring up an only partially-digested largish mammal in three separate sites around the house: one section right by my standing desk.
[Artwork: Edward Allington; One Unforgiving Minute - Manchester Art Gallery]
#cats
WFH downside. Important call @ 10:00. 🐱 decides to bring up an only partially-digested largish mammal in three separate sites around the house: one section right by my standing desk.
[Artwork: Edward Allington; One Unforgiving Minute - Manchester Art Gallery]
#cats
For anyone who needs to hear this tonight…
June 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For anyone who needs to hear this tonight…
— We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
Anaïs Nin; French-American novelist, diarist and essayist (1903-1977)
Anaïs Nin; French-American novelist, diarist and essayist (1903-1977)
May 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
— We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
Anaïs Nin; French-American novelist, diarist and essayist (1903-1977)
Anaïs Nin; French-American novelist, diarist and essayist (1903-1977)
Beautiful weekend in Newlyn.
May 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Beautiful weekend in Newlyn.
Hello Newlyn, nice to be back
May 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hello Newlyn, nice to be back
May 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There’s a new docu about her on iPlayer. It’s called “Tish”. Really beautiful portrayal of her work. She was a genius.
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There’s a new docu about her on iPlayer. It’s called “Tish”. Really beautiful portrayal of her work. She was a genius.
Alfred Schnittke’s gravestone: a silent rest, held infinitely, played with thunderous intensity.
May 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Alfred Schnittke’s gravestone: a silent rest, held infinitely, played with thunderous intensity.
“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening”
— Rilke
— Rilke
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening”
— Rilke
— Rilke
Matisse on originality
— Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
— Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Matisse on originality
— Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
— Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
Frida Kahlo on her self portraits.
April 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Frida Kahlo on her self portraits.
The hot dang Stevie Nicks and Bob Jones #content combat zone.
1. Headings. Bullets. White space.
#UX #ContentDesign
1. Headings. Bullets. White space.
#UX #ContentDesign
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The hot dang Stevie Nicks and Bob Jones #content combat zone.
1. Headings. Bullets. White space.
#UX #ContentDesign
1. Headings. Bullets. White space.
#UX #ContentDesign
Went to @thelowry.com last week to see #Homecoming. Loved it. Beautiful to watch people expressing so much with their bodies.
April 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Went to @thelowry.com last week to see #Homecoming. Loved it. Beautiful to watch people expressing so much with their bodies.