Ed Kluz is an artist working across painting, printmaking, sculpture, video and sound. His practice examines the evolving relationship between past and present, focusing on how historical narratives are constructed, mythologised and continually reinterpreted. Kluz approaches history as an active, mutable force - one that shapes contemporary experience as much as it is shaped by it.

Drawing on sources such as architecture, artefacts, folklore, music, landscape and archival texts, Kluz develops layered visual and spatial works that often merge the real with the imagined. Theatricality and staged illusion play a central role in his practice, enabling him to create heightened atmospheres that invite viewers to navigate states of transition, uncertainty and revelation.

Recent immersive projects, including site-responsive installations, extend this inquiry through the use of sculptural forms, light, sound and moving image. By reframing material traces of the past within new sensory and conceptual contexts, Kluz raises questions around authenticity, preservation and collective memory - illuminating how cultural histories are maintained, disrupted or transformed over time.

Between 1999-2002 he studied 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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