Mat Dugard is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist based in Perth, Scotland. After gaining a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art and Contextualised Practice, Dugard went on to exhibit in the prestigious New Contemporaries Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Since then, he has established himself as an emerging artist in the Scottish contemporary art scene, selling and exhibiting work both nationally and internationally.

His practice is focused on processed based artwork and what he calls ‘play’. In an attempt to find meaning in the fast-paced world of today, Dugard’s process draws on traditional and digital techniques and a vast variety of subject matters. Elements of illustration, landscape, portraiture, text are abstracted and layered like a mood board offering moments of reflection and new narrative. His style can often be defined as a visual stream of consciousness diary. The personal and the universal, the traditional and the digital all blend together to create new narratives and meanings.

As well as painting, Dugard has developed sculpture work, digital and public artworks in his unique style. In 2020 he was commissioned to take his style and create a response to the Covid-19 pandemic by wrapping the historic Perth Museum columns in his work.

Dugard’s work can be seen on the ceilings of local restaurants, the doors of historic landmarks as well as the private residence of Caribbean islands. Dugard continues to follow his process and ‘play’ with the world around him in the hopes of one day understanding it.