
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
Dublin Modular – It’s at Home – November 2021
Circuit Arts Festival 2021 – Corbett Court, Galway City – October 2021
Hang Tough Contemporary – Rising – September / October 2021
Farmleigh Gallery – Pluid – August / September 2021
Temple Bar Medical Centre & NCAD – Pharmakon – July / December 2021
Copper House Gallery – SCOOP Foundation Charity Art Auction 2021 – April 2021
NTMA & NCAD – Positives: Painting in the Pandemic – March 2021
SO Fine Art – Winter Exhibition – December 2020 / January 2021
NCAD – First Year End of Year Show – May 2019
Interviews
Void Magazine – A Glimmer of Light & A Parting Presence – September 2022
Ultraviolet Art Talks – February 2021
Features
Irish Arts Review – New Generation Gallery – September 2022
NCAD Works 2022 – Graduates – June 2022
Sunday Business Post – Irish Tatler Magazine – The Artist’s to Watch – Oct 2021
NCAD Studio+ Micro Studios – Thinking Space – July 2021
Totally Dublin – SCOOP Foundation Charity Art Auction 2021 – April 2021
NCAD Works 2019 – First Year – May 2019
Awards
NCAD Clancy Quay Studio Graduate Residency Award – 2022 / 2023
Collections
Office of Public Works
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
Teeling Whiskey Distillery, Dublin
Irish and International Private Collections
Relevant Experience
NCAD Clancy Quay & Superprojects Professional Development Programme 2022/2023
Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum 2021/2022
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2021 Spring School
2020 Young Art Writers Program (With TBG+S, RHA Gallery, and The LAB Gallery)