Matthew Arthur Williams is a multidisciplinary artist whose impromptu music performance, together with Blaize Henry, during our 2024 film collaboration (https://youtu.be/UDDJEKqvrEw?si=ybQJr49eydyJ_Z_U) became the catalyst for this entire podcast series.

Matthew takes us deep into his understanding of art practice as continuous, lived research—where every walk, conversation, and moment feeds into the creative process. We explore his work with archives, where he seeks out the personal experiences that aren't typically recorded—looking for the gaps and silences in official narratives.

Through photography, film, and sound, he creates active dialogues with the past, exploring themes of memory, loss, and grief. As someone of Caribbean heritage living in Britain, his work navigates complex questions of identity, belonging, and diaspora, always seeking the personal within larger historical narratives.

We discuss his unique approach to collaboration as shared learning experiences, his parallel life as DJ Junglehussi, and his process of creating experimental soundscapes for films—including scoring work for Alberta Whittle's Venice Biennale film.