David Matthew King at Belvoir Castle

HeritageXplore x The Dot Project

 Artist-in-Residence Programme |  Summer–Autumn 2025

This September, LA based artist David Matthew King will undertake a month-long residency at Belvoir Castle, developing a new body of work in direct response to the site’s layered cultural and physical landscape.

Living and working on-site, King will respond instinctively to the castle’s inherited histories, and the quiet often overlooked details of both its interiors and surrounding grounds – approaching Belvoir not as a static monument, but as a place shaped by time, memory, and use.

This period of close observation and physical engagement will become both material and method – gathering, painting, and repeating, until the work begins to echo the rhythms of the site itself, mirroring the way cultural memory settles into buildings and landscapes over time.

Known for his richly textured, abstract paintings, King’s practice – layered, instinctive, and physical – explores the tension between permanence and impermanence.

Installed throughout the castle’s interiors, the works will act as both interruptions and echoes, reframing the space as something alive and responsive, rather than fixed or static.

This project offers a rare opportunity to see a contemporary artist immersed within a historic setting – creating a powerful conversation between contemporary abstraction and centuries of history.