Ercan Dural

Ercan Dural was born in Istanbul in 1966. In 1991, he graduated from the department of applied art at the vocational school at the Anadolu University. In the same year, he received an award from the Turkish Ministry of Culture in Ankara. In 1997, he started teaching students with developmental difficulties at his alma mater. In 1998, he completed his master’s degree at the ceramic department in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Anadolu University. Recently, he has drawn inspiration from the thought of Mevlana and concentrates to make sema and semazen with special techniques, like the “Raku”. He has had over 30 exhibitions in Turkey.

Exhibitions:

2005: Anadolu Ajansı Art Gallery, Ankara. 2006: Ordu State Fine Arts Gallery, Ordu; the "Semazen" exhibition at the Çanakkale Troy cultural center within the International Symposium, "thought and art of Mevlana" held in Çanakkale 18 Mart University. 2007: Eskişehir State Fine Arts Gallery, Eskişehir; Konya State Fine Arts Gallery, Konya.