Mat Chivers was born in 1973 and lives and works in Dartmoor, Devon.
Through making sculpture, installation and drawing; Mat Chivers looks at some of the moments of process and states of flux that exist below the surface of things. He isinterested in aspects of the looped interface between certain macro and microcosmic states, such as the way often unseen, fundamental phenomena, events and processes can occur over very different time and dimensional scales to our own yet ultimately exist in direct relationship with us. The work draws on combinations of analog and digital technologies in objects that embody a hybridisation of old-world subjects and techniques with contemporary envisioning processes. His interest is focused at the location between data capture and its consequent interpretation. It is at this boundary that ambiguity often resides, potentially conflating notions of fact and fiction. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Courthauld Institute and The Venice Biennale among others. CV EDUCATION 1993-6 B.A.(Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, The Nottingham Trent University ERASMUS, Escuela des Belles Artes, Barcelona, Spain COMMISSIONS / COLLECTIONS Association Vents des Forets, France Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Bournemouth & Poole College Bristol City Council Chagford Arts Festival The Countryside Agency Dartmoor National Park The Devon Guild Doorstep Green ExLab / Big Picture The Fitzwilliam Museum The Met Office Mochary Collection, USA NHS Primary Healthcare Trust Norwegian Cruise Lines Soho House Group STRAW project Thelma Hulbert Gallery West Devon Borough Council AWARDS / GRANTS 2009 ECO 2009, PROOF Award 2005 Arts Council England Grant Devon ArtsCulture Award 2003 Arts Council England Grant PROJECTS 2012 'Moby Dick - 21st Century Whale' 'Overlay', The Bournemouth Natural Science Society & The National Trust Estate, Purbeck, Dorset 2009 'Outbreath', collaboration with research scientists, The University of Bristol 2002 'Shelter', site-specific collaboration, various locations, France SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 'Sculpture & Drawings', The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton 2011 'Fascination', Maddox Arts, London 'States of Flux', Bridport Arts Centre 2007 'Sculpture + Drawings', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole 2002 'Incunabula', Buckland Abbey GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 'Material Matters: The Power of the Medium', East Wing X, The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London 'Exploratory Laboratory (ExLab), Art, Science & the Coast', AUCB Arts University College Bournemouth 'Overlay', The Bournemouth Natural Science Society & The National Trust Estate, Purbeck, Dorset 2011 'The Knowledge', Gervasuti Foundation, 54th Venice Biennale Exhibition of International Art, Italy 'Eleventh Plateau', Historical Archives Museum, Hydra, Greece 'Biliteral', Pertwee Anderson & Gold, London 'Eleventh Plateau 2', Archeological Society, Athens Biennial, Greece 'Before the Crash', Exeter, Rome, Prague 2010 'Holding Time', Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Indian Institute for Arts & Culture, London 'Ex-Lab', Bridport Arts Centre 'Sculpture', Great Western Studios, London 'On-Form', Oxford 2009 'Secret', Royal College of Art, London 'ECO, Exeter Contemporary Open', Phoenix Arts & Media, Exeter 'Perspectives on a Modernist Legacy', Woburn Abbey '[email protected] - Stone', Royal British Society of Sculptors, London 'Vanitas Triptych', St Michael the Archangel, Chagford 'Sculpture', ArtContact, Limberhurst Arts Centre, Cambridge 'Ludlow Open Exhibition of Contemporary Art', Ludlow 2008 '2D to 3D - Drawings Towards Sculpture', Bournemouth University 'Visual', Beachcroft Space, Beachcroft LLP, Bristol '156th Autumn Exhibition', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 'It Ain't What You Do', Society of Artists, St Ives 'On-Form', Oxford 2007 'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London 2006 'ArtLondon', Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London 'Re-View: Territories Inspire Art', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole 'Forest Dreaming, Part 3', Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, (CCANW), Exeter 'On-Form', Oxford 'Mark', Dartington College of Arts Gallery 'Consistently Abstract', The Installation Room, Salt Gallery, Hayle 2005 'Elemental Insight' Canterbury Royal Museum and Art Gallery; Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Falkirk Civic Offices Hannah Peschar, Ockley '153rd Autumn Exhibition', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2004 'Elemental Insight', BBC Media Centre; London, Black Swan Arts; Bridport Art Centre; Burton Art Gallery 'Big Jurrasic', Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton 2003 'Size Matters', Devon Guild 2002 'Vents des Forets', Lahaymieux, France |
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