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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 |