AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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Matthew Freeth started off as a cartoonist in 1970's England, greatly influenced by Robert Crumb, Zap Comix, Aubrey Beardsley, and W. Heath Robinson. He gradually put his pen aside to take up collage, which he's been doing ever since. After traveling in Southern Europe, Freeth decided to go to art school in Norwich, Norfolk in the early 1980's, where he came under the spell of Surrealism, amongst other things. This started a continuous process of collecting various materials. He returned to cartooning by way of animation with a job on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".

Freeth has worked as an illustrator from time to time, along with other animation projects in film, television series and commercials, which brought him to America to work for Dreamworks. He is currently working on a number of projects in Los Angeles, California, and is part of a group show at the Julie Rico Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles' Gallery Row.