About
Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion are Scottish based artists working with sculpture, photography, video and sound exploring new ways to engage with the subjects of, the environment and ecology.
We are living through a heightened period in time where various phenomenon is converging – climate change, soil and habitat degradation, air and sea pollution and population energy demands are just a few of the forces generating world-wide difficulties and tensions. The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Our artworks enter into this subject matter embodying thoughts and values that reflect on the very real changes we are witness to.
We collaborate with conservation bodies, landowners, developers, botanists, ecologists, curators and museums, composers and musicians amongst others. We constantly strive to understand the context and the place our artworks will exist in, investigating ways that art can focus attention on and amplify particular aspects of the ecology of a place; it’s authentic features and unique character. Through this we cultivate qualities that may have lain dormant, three dimensionalising ideas into forms that inject a new value and alternative recognition of a place. The artworks become conduits between people and nature, helping audiences experience our shared environment from alternative perspectives, with the aim of re-establishing our connection with nature and the non-human species we live alongside.
Our studio was established in 1990 in a remote fishing village called St Combs on the northeast coast of Aberdeenshire. In 2001 we moved to Dundee where our studio was embedded in the University there. And in 2022, we built Hona and our current studio in Uig on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
