About

Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin and a recent graduate from NCAD, working predominantly in painting, sculpture and installation.

“The experience of ‘being’ frequently acts as a key site of exploration within my work. Passing and often forgotten moments regularly place themselves as a starting point, using photographs taken throughout my day to create compositions for my paintings. Through the process of abstraction, obscuring the industrious cityscape of Dublin and its occupants. Aiming to depict the brevity of time and evoke a sense of fading memories. Whilst conveying our lack of control in life, by letting chance and spontaneity dictate the process, submerging, dragging and pouring paint across their surfaces and occasionally reconfiguring their structural components. The paintings further guide the creation of the installation and sculptures in the surrounding space, situating the viewer within its uncanny and constructed environment.”

Education

National College of Art and Design – BA Fine Art Painting – 2018 to 2022

Solo Exhibitions

“A Glimmer of Light & A Parting Presence” – NCAD Graduate Showcase – June 2022

“A Perpetual Flow, Both to and fro” – College Lane Gallery, Howth – July / August 2021

Group Exhibitions

Hang Tough Contemporary – Dublin Is – November / December 2022

Temple Bar Medical Centre & NCAD – Kaleidoscopic Dreams – June / October 2022

NTMA & NCAD – Humanity – May 2022

Hang Tough Contemporary – Winter Print Exhibition – December 2021

Lucky No.7 – mend HX – November 2021

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios – Dublin Art Book Fair 2021 – November / December 2021