Ed Kluz’s work spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, video and sound. His practice explores the shifting relationship between past and present, focusing on the ways historical narratives are built, mythologized, and continually reinterpreted. He treats history not as something fixed, but as a living, changeable force - one that shapes contemporary experience as much as it is shaped by it.
Drawing on architecture, artefacts, folklore, music, landscape, and archival materials, he creates layered visual and spatial works that often blur the line between the real and the imagined. Theatricality and staged illusion play a central part in his approach, enabling him to construct heightened atmospheres that invite viewers into states of transition, uncertainty, and discovery.
Recent immersive projects, including site-responsive installations, deepen this investigation through sculptural forms, light, sound, and moving image. By reframing traces of the past within fresh sensory and conceptual contexts, he prompts questions about authenticity, preservation, and collective memory - revealing how cultural histories are maintained, disrupted, or transformed over time.
Between 1999-2002 he studied at the Winchester School of Art.
Collections
V&A
National Trust
English Heritage
York City Art Gallery
The University of York
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Cholmondeley estate
Selected exhibitions & public commissions
Solo
2025 Between Chaos & Light - National Trust, Fountains Hall - installation commission.
2023 They can’t mess with what’s in your head - Imperial War Museum - sculptural installation commission as part of 14-18 NOW programme.
2019 Facades - John Martin Gallery, London
2018 Bayeux Rider - English Heritage, Richmond Castle - land art commission.
2017 Sheer Folly - Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2017 Pastscapes - John Martin Gallery, London
2015 MONUMENT - John Martin Gallery, London
2014 The Architecture of Enlightenment - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 The Lost House Revisited II - John Martin Gallery, London
2014 The Lost House Revisited - Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent
2012 The Drawing Room - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Group
2020 Turner: Northern Exposure & Force of Nature - Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2020 Drawn to Nature -Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2020 Collection - York City Art Gallery
2016 Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape - MOMA, Wales
2014 Nostalgia & Progress - The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
2014 Designing the Everyday - Towner, Eastbourne
Residencies
2021 IN PRAISE OF MAKERS - Arts&Heritage - Meeting Point Residency
Other selected commissions
Little Toller Books - introduction to ‘An English Farmhouse’ 2021
Folio society - illustrations for ‘Rupert Brooke: selected poems’ 2014
John Murray - cover illustration for ‘The Broken Road’ by Patrick Leigh Fermor 2013
Publications
The Lost House Revisited - Ed Kluz, Tim Knox & Olivia Horsfall Turner - Merrell publishers 2017
John Craxton - A Modern Odyssey - Simon Martin - Pallant House Gallery 2023