Balthazar Mattar is a London based analogue-graphic artist. He has mounted 3 solo exhibitions in London and taken part in art fairs across the UK, Germany and Denmark.

Originally a musician, he studied classical and cabaret composition at Kings College London from 2010-2013. He was taught by Robert Saxton and performed his music for the late Queen. After graduating he moved into performing, writing and recording in experimental/post-punk projects across London’s leftfield music scenes with Hi-iD and Glass Disguise.

Throughout his music career he always created visual art, but it wasn’t until the start of the pandemic that he started practising intensively. Inspired by the angularity of post punk and free jazz, he developed a uniquely graphic style, utilizing vintage typewriters and emulsion paint. All of his work portrays figures entwined in ambiguous physical embrace, pseudo digital in aesthetic but purely analogue in execution. The work embodies and comments upon the inherent tensions and contradictions of a humanity advancing into a computerized age and all the dilemmas therein.

During the pandemic period he began selling work on Instagram. Through gaining traction on social media, he began to be offered opportunities to do art fairs in London and Denmark and within a year of working publicly and professionally as an artist he mounted his first solo exhibition in Fitzrovia, London. Since then he has organised a further two solo exhibitions in London and done art fairs in Munich, Copenhagen, London and Manchester.