Dalziel + Scullion
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Overview
Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion are Scottish based artists working with sculpture, photography, video and sound exploring new ways to engage with the subjects of, the environment and ecology.
We are living through a heightened period in time where various phenomenon is converging – climate change, soil and habitat degradation, air and sea pollution and population energy demands are just a few of the forces generating world-wide difficulties and tensions. The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Our artworks enter into this subject matter embodying thoughts and values that reflect on the very real changes we are witness to.
We collaborate with conservation bodies, landowners, developers, botanists, ecologists, curators and museums, composers and musicians amongst others. We constantly strive to understand the context and the place our artworks will exist in, investigating ways that art can focus attention on and amplify particular aspects of the ecology of a place; it’s authentic features and unique character. Through this we cultivate qualities that may have lain dormant, three dimensionalising ideas into forms that inject a new value and alternative recognition of a place. The artworks become conduits between people and nature, helping audiences experience our shared environment from alternative perspectives, with the aim of re-establishing our connection with nature and the non-human species we live alongside.
Our studio was established in 1990 in a remote fishing village called St Combs on the northeast coast of Aberdeenshire. In 2001 we moved to Dundee where our studio was embedded in the University there. And in 2022, we built Hona and our current studio in Uig on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Still from 'Raven'
2025 Part of the Hulabhaig Collection.
Still from 'Raven'
2025
Cruinneachadh Hulabhaig
Artwork aquired for the Hulabhaig Collection of Island Contemporaray Art
Raven
2025
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Artist Biography
Dalziel + Scullion have been selected for important national and international exhibitions including the British Art Show and the Venice Biennale and have been awarded numerous awards and prizes including the Saltire Society Award for Art in Architecture, the Saltire Society Award for Art in Public Places, the Eco Prize for Creativity and were short-listed for the international Artes Mundi Prize 2008. They are invited to be speakers at leading conferences and symposiums on the subject of art and ecology including: Tipping Point, a conference of invited artists and scientists to explore the wider cultural issues around climate change at the Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Berlin; the Scottish Governments Arts and Environment Scotland, Climate Change – Gauging the Temperature at The University of Wales; Art In The Land at the University of Glasgow; Fieldworks, at Tate Modern; Art and Nature at Tate Britain; and at The Edinburgh Lecture Series, Edinburgh. Dalziel + Scullions work is also published in seminal survey books including Land Art, published by Tate publishing and L’Artiste Contemporain Et La Nature, published by Hazan.
Selected Exhibitions
Dalziel + Scullion have had solo exhibitions at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Arnolfini, Bristol, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Manchester Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, National Media Museum, in Bradford, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. They were also included in the 3rd British Art Show and have shown internationally at the Venice Biennale, Young British Artists in Rome, the Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Am Polylog Project in Worgl, Austria, Madison Square Park in New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, the Meguro Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Artconnexion in Lille, France, IBID Projects in Vilnius, Lithuania, Cinema Texas 7, Austin, Texas, 1st International Biennial of Video Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Classic Independent Films, Naples, Italy and On The Edge, Feinstein lighthouse Norway.
Selected Commissions
Commissions include: Nomadic Boulders for John O’ Groats; Rosnes Bench throughout the landscape of Dumfries and Galloway; Strata, at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow; Some Distance From The Sun for HBOS Headquarters Edinburgh; More Than Us for SNH Headquarters in Inverness; Catalyst for Dundee City Centre; Migrator, for the British Airport Authority, Heathrow; Meltwater, for Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London; 4 minutes, for the Science Museum, London; Modern Nature, for Elrick Hill, Aberdeenshire; Rain for Oriel 31, Newtown, Wales; The Horn, for the M8 Motorway (West Lothian District Council); The Ontological Garden, for The Royal Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, Birch Stand, for BA Commissions, Terminal 1, Heathrow Airport, London; The Realm Of the Oystercatcher, for The State Hospital, Carstairs, Lanark and Rain for Kaust University, Thuwai, Saudi Arabia.
Selected Collections
The National Media Museum, Bradford; The Arts Council of England; The National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh; The British Council; The Science Museum, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Craft Council of England; British Airport Authorities, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum; The Standard Life Collection, London; The Hennessey Collection, London; The Floback Collection, Miami, USA; The Navigator Foundation, Boston, USA; and Wimbledon College of Art Collection, London.