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Ed Kluz is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, video, sound, printmaking, and installation. His practice explores the fluid relationship between past and present, interrogating how historical narratives are shaped, mythologised, and reinterpreted through contemporary lenses. For Kluz, the past is not a fixed archive but a living, shifting presence - an active participant in our current experience and perception.

 

Drawing inspiration from historical architecture, artefacts, folklore, music, landscape, and text, Kluz reexamines cultural memory through richly layered compositions and immersive environments. His work often blurs the boundaries between the real and the imagined, using theatricality - both in visual staging and spatial dynamics - to create heightened atmospheres that invite reflection, unease, and wonder.

 

​Whether in two-dimensional work or three-dimensional form, Kluz employs a sense of spectacle and constructed illusion to challenge viewers’ assumptions about historical truth and authenticity. By engaging with the material traces of the past and reframing them in new visual contexts, his work raises questions about the voices, buildings, events, and objects that are preserved, those which are forgotten, and how collective memory continues to evolve.

 

Between 1999-2002 he studied fine art at the Winchester School of Art. 

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​Collections

 

V&A

English Heritage

York City Art Gallery

The University of York

Grosvenor Museum, Chester â€‹â€‹â€‹

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EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

 

2025

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BETWEEN CHAOS AND LIGHT

21st June - 21st December

Fountains Hall, North Yorkshire

(Solo exhibition)

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2024

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WRÆTTWORKS

24th May - 22nd June

Berdoulat

Margaret's Buildings, Bath

(Solo exhibition)

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​​2023

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Behind the Bastion 

9th June - 28th August

Imperial War Museum 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire

(Group exhibition)

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​​2022

 

INTERLUDE: 30 Years of Artists & Exhibitions 

7th - 26th June

John Martin Gallery, London

(Group exhibition)

 

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Residencies & public commissions

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2023 They Can't mess with what's in your head. Commission from Imperial War Museums as part of 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund in partnership with Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln.

 

2022-23 Papilio installations as part of Selby Stories. Historic England and North Yorkshire Council.

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2021 IN PRAISE OF MAKERS. Meeting Point Residency awarded by Arts&Heritage 


2018 ‘Bayeux Rider’, Richmond Castle, English Heritage

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Selected solo exhibitions

 

2019 Facades - John Martin Gallery, London

 

2017 Sheer Folly - Yorkshire Sculpture Park 


2017 Pastscapes - John Martin Gallery, London


2015 MONUMENT - John Martin Gallery, London


2014 The Architecture of Enlightenment - The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh


2014 The Lost House Revisited II - John Martin Gallery, London


2014 The Lost House Revisited - Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent


2012 The Drawing Room - The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh


1999-2002 – Winchester School of Art – Fine Art Painting

 


 

Selected group exhibitions

2020 Turner: Northern Exposure & Force of Nature - Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
 

2020 Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists- Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 
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2020 Views of York & Yorkshire - York City Art Gallery 
 
2017  Inspiring Landmarks - The Old Truman Brewery, London 

2016 Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape - MOMA, Machynlleth, Wales
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2014 Nostalgia & Progress: Illustration after the Second World War - The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

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2014 Designing the Everyday: from Bloomsbury and Ravilious to the present day - The Towner, Eastbourne

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2010 Cherry on the Cake III - V&A London

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