About

Matthew Harle is a writer and curator from London.

He has written and edited books on writers and artists, mythic television plays, miners strikes, lost address books, and football. He also makes exhibitions, film programmes, video essays and artists’ books that draw upon documents of everyday life, subcultures and the history of ideas.

Since 2024, Matthew has been Curator of Artistic Programmes at The Warburg Institute, responsible for the Institute’s exhibitions, artist residencies and public programme. Prior to the Warburg, Matthew was Curator of Public Programme at the Barbican, where he helped establish the Barbican Archive. He began his career at the BFI,where he was part of the archive TV programming team.

Matthew is a founding trustee of the Rita Keegan Foundation, originally part of the team that assembled and curated Keegan’s artworks and archive.