Who's who
Dr Daro Montag
Course Leader & Research Cluster Leader, RANE
Daro Montag makes art with living matter. His research and creative practice start from the premise that the natural world is best understood as being constituted of interacting events rather than consisting of discrete objects. This philosophical position foregrounds the significance of process and its residue.
To express this idea in visual form he is particularly interested in the notion of indexical traces. In order to create this work the artist has employed the assistance of micro-organisms, plants, insects, toads and other living matter. His most recent work, commissioned for an exhibition at the Met Office, records the activities of the wind and rain.
He completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in 1994 and a PhD at the University of Hertfordshire in 2000. Daro's work has been exhibited at galleries in the UK, USA, Europe and the UAE, and published in a number of catalogues. In 2002 he was awarded a prestigious art-science prize in Tokyo. In the same year he was commissioned to create a new work, in collaboration with the Institute for Animal Health, for an exhibition on the aftermath of the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.
As well as leading the MA in Contemporary Visual Arts, Daro also runs the research cluster in Art, Nature & Environment - RANE.
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