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matt durran

Matt Durran - Artist

Matt works on large-scale installations and sculptural pieces which at times harmonise with their physical surroundings and at other times lie in uneasy conjunction.

Always curious always looking - words often used to describe Matt's approach to life and which run like a continuous thread through the territories of his work.

His explorations have taken him from ancient lava-formed obsidian to stockpiled waste glass and the frontiers of new technologies. They’ve found him devising collaborative solutions to energy sustainability and the up-cycling of waste materials. They’ve led him inwards through medical research to the internal architecture of the human body and outwards to the built environment we live in.

Matt's art practice strives to balance aesthetics with emerging technologies. He stresses the importance of making his own work, pushing forward with new materials his own artistic expression, of making beautiful, compelling and inspiring pieces.


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UK Exhibitions

2014        The Art of the Possible, PM Gallery

2013        Wyndcliffe Court Sculpture Gardens

2013        Fresh Air, The Quenington Sculpture Trust

2013        Movement and Light, Orleans House Gallery

2012        Green House, Kestle Barton, Rural Centre for Contemporary Arts                 

2011        The Power of Making  Victoria & Albert Museum

2011        Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden 

2011        Collect Project Space, Saatchi Gallery

2010        Remarkable Glass, CAA gallery

2008        Liquid Projects, Liverpool, Euro Capital of Culture

2008        Silent Voyage, Origin Intervention, Somerset House

2003        Transfuse, Great Eastern Hotel, London  

2003/04   Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, UK touring 



Collections

           Installation, NHS Wilberforce Health Centre, Hull, UK           

           Metropolitan Museum, Liverpool, UK

           Elagin Palace Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.

           Recycled Glass Arts Project, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London

           Mencendorfa Nams Museum, Riga, Latvia

           Rona Collection, Lednicke Rovne, Slovakia

          National Museum of Scotland

           National Collection of Applied Arts, Ukraine

           HGS Collection, Hungary
International Selected Exhibitions

2014  Coburg Prize for Contemporary Art

2013   Galeria BB, Warsaw, Poland

2013   Video Install, Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Canada

2012   Sincerely Yours, Museum of New Art, Estonia

2011   All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts, Moscow, Russia 

2011   Konschthaus beim Engel, Luxembourg 

2010   Gallery Skalda, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008   Bombay Sapphire Prize, Superstudio, Milan, Italy

2008   Elagin Palace Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.

2008   Selective Memory, M`ars Gallery, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

2005   Le Verre Coule de Source, Pelussin, France

2005   Climate of Change, Asuna Makslas Gallery, Latvia

2002   Connections, Espai Vidre, Fundacio Centre del Vidre de Barcelona, Spain                                                                                

2002   International Exhibition, Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia
















If you would like a full CV please email Matt at: info@mattdurran.com










MATT DURRAN: email: info@mattdurran.com