Matt Duran
Silent Voyage
“There are those who pass like ships in the night, who meet for a moment, then sail out of sight with never a backward glance” avy1188
How many ships have passed, how many nautical miles are made and
how many silent voyages are sailing today.
Also communicating the air flows and gulf streams that we are so dependant on.
Silent Voyage is a continuation of a body of work that deals with recycled glass, showing the possibilities of upcycling.
This art work is about the placement of a recognised object in an unrelated space.
Education
1988-91 University of Sunderland ,BA Hons 3D Design, Glass & Ceramics
1990 Copenhagen Skolen, Brusskhunst Glass & Cermics Depart, Denmark
Awards
2006 Crafts the magazine for contemporary craft Nov/Dec 2004/05/08 Bombay Sapphire Prize( Finalist)
2004-03 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize GLASS (Shortlisted)
2004 EU Travel Bursary , Hungary
2001 British Council Travel Bursary
2001 Anglo Hungarian Glass and Culture Projects, Cairo, Egypt
1999 British Council Travel Bursary
Exhibitions
2009 Recollect at the Lotus Foundation, London.
2008 Silent Voyage, Origin Intervention, Origin, Crafts Council, Somerset House.
Glass ,Light and Space . Koukan Gallery , London .
The Art of Glass The St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives, Cornwall
Fast Glass Liquid Projects,Design Show Liverpool,Euro Capital of Culture
Bombay Sapphire Prize,Superstudio, Milan, Italy
Selective Memory M`ars gallery, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow,Russia
2007 Fresh Air 2007, The Quenington Sculpture Trust. UK
2006-07 1st&2nd International Symposium on Glass, Gus-Khrustailny , Russia
2006-09 Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden , Ockley , Surrey
2006-09 Plumbline Gallery , St. Ives , Cornwall , UK .
2006 Glas in Historical Light Horn , Holland
2006-09 Oriel Ty Gorsaf Gallery , Llanfairpwll , Wales
2006-08 British Glass Biennale International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge UK
2005 Le verre coule de source Pelussin , France
Climate of Change Asuna Makslas Gallery, Riga, Latvia (solo)
2005-07 Designersblock London The Nicholls & Clarke Buildings
2005 COLLECT V&A ,London, UK (solo)
2005-04 Fragile Cargo Anglo Hungarian touring exhibition .
2008/05/04 Bombay Sapphire Prize Finalist (touring)
2004 Collect, Crafts Council, V&A, London,UK (group)
2003/04 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2003 GLASS(touring)
2003 Transfuse,Great Eastern Hotel, London, England
2002 Connections, Espai vidre, Fundacio centre del vidre de Barcelona,Spain
International Glass Exhibition, Museum of Applied Arts ,Moscow, Russia
Solid Air ,CraftsCouncil ,London,England
2001 Images, et Eksternest Gallery ,Brussels ,Belgium
Glass Artists from England,Galveston,Texas,USA
Tracks, New London Glass, Gloucester Rd underground station,London.
2000 Grounds for Sculpture Gallery,Hamilton,New Jersey,USA
1999 Symbiosis ,Chateau Bourglinster ,Luxembourg (Solo)
Commissions
2008 Recycled glass Arts(Renewal Project) St-Martin-in-the-fields, London
Collections
2008 Metropolitan Museum, Liverpool,UK
2008 Elagin Palace Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.
2005 Mencendorfa nams Museum Riga , Latvia.
2004&96 Rona,Lednicke Rovne Glass Collection,Slovakia
2004 Dan Klein&AlanJ.poole(Private Collection).London
2001 National Collection of Applied Arts,Ukraine
1999 Hungarian Glass Society Collection, Hungary