The artists Matthew Dalziel (b 1957) and Louise Scullion (b. 1966) have collaborated from the early 1990s under the name Dalziel + Scullion. Both Scottish by birth, they attended the Glasgow School of Art respectively for an MA and a BA.

Their practice encompasses various media including video, photography and sculpture and their interest focuses on the relationship between man and nature and on the phenomenon of increasing urbanisation.

Their solo exhibitions included The Most Beautiful Thing (1995) for the Scottish Arts Council and Dalziel + Scullion for the Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow. This exhibition then toured to Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol in 1996.

In 1997 a permanent installation at Heathrow airport, entitled Migrator, was unveiled, while in 2001 Meltwater was presented at Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

Other installation projects included Rain (2000) at Oriel 31, Newtown; Another Place (2001), a video installation shown at Aberdeen Art Gallery and a sculpture exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Examples of their work are held by Arts Council England Collection, British Council Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Dalziel + Scullion studio is located in Mangersta in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

Reference Bibliography:
Buckman D., 2006, Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 1, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol

www.dalzielscullion.com

Glossary

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.

  • Sculpture

    A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.

  • Video

    Images recorded on videotape or on optical disc to be viewed on television screens, or projected onto screens. The medium through which these images are recorded and displayed.

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