Artist statement
Matt Baker
b. 1965
For the last twelve years Matt Baker has concentrated his Artist practice full-time on work in the public domain. During this time he has developed participatory and collaborative techniques through projects ranging from temporary events/installations to large scale permanent artworks and cultural strategies for programmes of urban change. Major sculpture projects include: Shinglehook - Scottish Borders, Cultivated Wilderness- Glasgow, Gatekeeper- Glasgow, he was appointed as Lead Artist for the City of Inverness in 2006 and was Lead Artist in the Gorbals (Glasgow) from 2000-2006. He has exhibited across Britain and Europe and his work is held in Scottish public collections. Matt Baker works from his studio in South-West Scotland.
Public realm
- 2006 Imagining the Centre, Church Street, Inverness
Solo exhibitions
- 2000 Sounding Vessels, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
- 1998 Heisenberg, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Landscape, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
- 2002 Celebration, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
- 2001 Stirring the City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
- 1999 New British Contemporary Art, Courtland Institute, London
Public commissions
- 2010 Concept and Artworks to accompany the 'Way of the Roses' - coast to coast cycle route, Sustrans and Regional Partners, Northern England: Lancashire to Yorkshire
- 2008 Three Virtues, City Centre, Inverness (more info)
- 2008 Cairnsmore - permanent mutli-piece installation, for Scottish Natural Heritage, Galloway, Scotland
- 2006 Shinglehook, St Mary's Loch, Scottish Borders (more info)
- 2004 Cultivated Wilderness, Gorbals, Glasgow (more info)
- 2004 Descender (maternal line), Threave Gardens (National Trust for Scotland), Castle Douglas, Scotland (more info)
- 2002 The Gatekeeper, Gorbals, Glasgow (more info)
- 2001 The Attendants, Gorbals, Glasgow (more info)
- 2000 Cumbrae Passage, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland (more info)
- 1998 The Crossing, River Nith, Dumfries (more info)
- 1996 ' .. still there were brothers', Bixlade Valley, Forest of Dean (more info)
- 1995 Walsall Railway Station, Walsall (more info)
Projects
- 2006 Lead Artist (2006-2010), Inverness Old Town Art, Inverness, Scotland.
- 2000 Lead Artist (2000-2006) £1M Regeneration of Gorbals., Glasgow, Scotland
Web links - gallery/work/projects
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