1973

  • Born, Bristol, UK.

1993-6

  • B.A.(Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, The Nottingham Trent University
  • ERASMUS, Escuela des Belles Artes, Barcelona, Spain

commissions / collections

  • Association Vents des Forets, France
  • Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
  • Bournemouth & Poole College
  • Bristol City Council
  • Chagford Arts Festival
  • The Countryside Agency
  • Dartmoor National Park
  • The Devon Guild
  • Doorstep Green
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Mochary Collection, USA
  • NHS Primary Healthcare Trust
  • Norwegian Cruise Lines
  • STRAW project
  • Thelma Hulbert Gallery
  • The Met Office
  • West Devon Borough Council

awards / grants

2009

  • ECO 2009, PROOF Award

2005

  • Arts Council England Grant
  • Devon ArtsCulture Award

2003

  • Arts Council England Grant

projects

2009

  • 'Outbreath', collaboration with research scientists, The University of Bristol

2002

  • 'Shelter', site-specific collaboration, various locations, France

individual exhibitions

2007

  • 'Mat Chivers: Sculpture + Drawings', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole

2002

  • 'Incunabula', Buckland Abbey

group exhibitions

2010

  • 'Holding Time', Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Indian Institute for Arts & Culture, London

2009

  • 'Secret', Royal College of Art, London
  • 'ECO, Exeter Contemporary Open', Phoenix Arts & Media, Exeter
  • 'Perspectives on a Modernist Legacy', Woburn Abbey
  • '18@108 - Stone', Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
  • 'Vanitas Triptych', St Michael the Archangel, Chagford
  • 'Sculpture', ArtContact, Limberhurst Arts Centre, Cambridge
  • 'Ludlow Open Exhibition of Contemporary Art', Ludlow

2008

  • '2D to 3D - Drawings Towards Sculpture', Bournemouth University
  • 'Visual', Beachcroft Space, Beachcroft LLP, Bristol
  • '156th Autumn Exhibition', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
  • 'It Ain't What You Do', Society of Artists, St Ives
  • 'On-Form', Oxford

2007

  • 'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London

2006

  • 'ArtLondon', Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
  • 'Re-View: Territories Inspire Art', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
  • 'Forest Dreaming, Part 3', Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, (CCANW), Exeter
  • 'On-Form', Oxford
  • 'Mark', Dartington College of Arts Gallery
  • 'Consistently Abstract', The Installation Room, Salt Gallery, Hayle

2005

  • 'Elemental Insight' Canterbury Royal Museum and Art Gallery; Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Falkirk Civic Offices
  • Hannah Peschar, Ockley
  • '153rd Autumn Exhibition', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2004

  • 'Elemental Insight', BBC Media Centre; London, Black Swan Arts; Bridport Art Centre; Burton Art Gallery
  • 'Big Jurrasic', Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

2003

  • 'Size Matters', Devon Guild

2002

  • 'Vents des Forets', Lahaymieux, France