Matthew Sweig

Canadian artist Matthew Sweig is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design and is currently a practicing Landscape Architect in Toronto. He has endeavoured to paint as subject matter his contextual environment as a parallel passion to that of design. He…

Memory is the predominant theme in Sweig’s work. The subject matter of his work revolves around familiar artefacts and buildings either in a state of natural decay or intentional destruction. The theme of memory manifests itself in the individual histories of inanimate objects that have unrecorded…