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Mat Chivers

 

 

 

BIO

1973  Born, Bristol, UK

EDUCATION

1993-96  BA (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
Bournmouth & Poole Museum
Bristol City Council
Chagford Arts Festival
Countryside Agency
Dartmoor National Park
Devon Guild
Doorstep Green
ExLab/Big Picture
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Mochary Collection, USA
NHS Primary Healthcare Trust
Norwegian Cruise Lines
SOHO House Group
STRAW project
Thelma Hulbert Gallery
The Met Office
West Devon Borough Council

AWARDS/GRANTS

2009  ECO 2009, PROOF/New Art Examiner Editorial Award
2005  Arts Council England Grant
2005  Devon ArtsCulture Award
2003  Arts Council England Grant

PROJECTS

2012  'Moby-Dick Redux: Twenty-first Century Whale', image for online production and book
2009  'Outbreath', collaboration with research scientists, Bristol University
2002  'Shelter', site-specific collaboration, various locations, France

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2012  'Sculpture & Drawings', The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2011  'Fascination', curated by James Putnam, Maddox Arts, London
2011  'State of Flux', Bridport Arts Centre
2007  'Sculpture & Drawing', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Bournemouth
2002  'Incunabula', Buckland Abbey

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013  Elements, ArtEco Gallery, London
2013  ‘London Art Fair’, Pertwee Anderson & Gold and Millenium, London
2012  ‘Material Matters: The Power of the Medium’, East Wing X, The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London
2012  ‘Exploratory Laboratory (ExLab), Art, Science & the Coast’, AUCB Arts University College Bournemouth
2012  ‘Overlay’, The Bournemouth Natural Science Society & The National Trust Estate, Purbeck, Dorset
2012  ‘Neoreplicants’, Phoenix Arts & Media, Exeter
2012  ‘Art, Science & The Coast’, Bridport Arts Centre
2012  ‘Mixed Winter Exhibition’, Millenium, St Ives
2011  ‘The Knowledge’, The Gervasuti Foundation, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2011  ‘Eleventh Plateau’, Historical Archives Museum, Hydra, Greece
2011  ‘Biliteral’, Pertwee Anderson & Gold, London
2011  ‘Eleventh Plateau 2’, Archeological Society, Athens Biennial, Greece
2011  ‘Before The Crash’, various venues Exeter, Rome, Prague
2010  ‘Holding Time’, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Indian Institute for Arts and Culture, London
2010  ‘On-Form’, Oxford 2010  ‘Ex-Lab, Bridport Arts Centre
2010  ‘Sculpture’, Great Western Studios, London
2009  ‘Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2009  ‘ECO 2009’, Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Arts & Media, Exeter
2009  ‘Perspectives on a Modernist Legacy, Woburn Abbey
2009  ‘Ludlow Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art’, Ludlow
2009  ‘18@108 – Stone’, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
2009  ‘Vanitas Triptych’, St Michael the Archangel, Chagford
2009  ‘Sculpture’, Art Contact, Limberhurst Arts Centre, Cambridge
2008  ‘2D to 3D – Drawings Towards Sculpture’, Bournemouth University
2008  ‘Visual’, Beachcroft Space, Beachcroft LLP, Bristol
2008  ‘156 th Autumn Exhibition’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2008  ‘It Ain’t What You Do’, Society of Artists, St Ives
2008  ‘On-Form, Oxford
2007  ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006  ‘ArtLondon’, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
2006  ‘re-View: Territories Inspire Art’, Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
2006  ‘Forest Dreaming, Part 3’, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, (CCANW), Exeter
2006  ‘On-Form’, Oxford
2006  ‘Mark’, Dartington College of Arts Gallery
2006  ‘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, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 2005  Hannah Peschar, Ockley
2005  ‘153 rd Autumn Exhibition’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2004  ‘Elemental Insight’, BBC Media Centre, London, Black Swan Arts, Bridport Art Centre, Burton Art   Gallery
2004  ‘Big Jurrasic’, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2003  ’Size Matters’, Devon Guild of Craftsmen
2002  ‘Vents des Forets’, Lahaymieux, France