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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V&A
English Heritage
York City Art Gallery
The University of York
Grosvenor Museum, Chester ​​​
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EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2025
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21st June - 21st December
Fountains Hall, North Yorkshire
(Solo exhibition)
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2024
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WRÆTTWORKS
24th May - 22nd June
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
(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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