Matt Rugg
About The Artist
mattrugg.comMatt Rugg (1935 – 2020) is a highly regarded abstract artist.
He studied and then taught the Basic Course in Fine Art at Newcastle following National Service, and later taught at Chelsea School of Art (1965 – 1994).
The career retrospective, “Matt Rugg, Connecting Form”, curated by Dr Harriet Sutcliffe for the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle in 2023 – 24, was well-reviewed.
The accompanying documentary, “Matt Rugg, How to be an Artist”, now on YouTube , and the monograph by Michael Bird with Harriet Sutcliffe, published by Lund Humphries, encapsulate Rugg’s approaches to making and teaching art.
Matt Rugg exhibited at The Cut in 2017, Notations – between drawing and sculpture and his work was shown again in 2022, Notations – passages and intervals.
