Matthew Chambers
Matthew Chambers
(1975-)
Twist Outside
Ceramic sculpture
Unique piece
Signed
2024
United Kingdom
Height 29 cm
Diameter 29 cm
Depth 21 cm
Matthew’s influences and inspirations for his beautiful ceramic circular sculptures include – geometric and optical art, constructivist themes, and modern architecture and design. He pursues these interests in an abstract sense by exploring shape and making mathematically constructed pieces in clay, each built up of many different wheel-thrown sections. On completion each form conveys different and individual properties of space, light, and colour, and sustains an expression of abstract and rhythmical beauty from its pattern of shape.
Matthew’s sculptures are made using either an earthenware or stoneware clay, with colours added directly into the body. When each form has been constructed, several weeks are allowed for slow drying to minimise shrinkage and warping problems. Once dry the piece is sculpted to achieve a finer shape and then low fired. It is sanded and then high fired again. Once fully fired each piece is polished once again, this time with diamond abrasives to help achieve a very smooth overall finish.
Following a six year apprenticeship with Phillip Wood in Frome, Somerset, Matthew went on to gain a BA (Hons) 1st Class in ceramics at BSUC, Bath. He then went to the Royal College of Art, obtaining an MA in Ceramics and Glass. He has won numerous awards both in the UK and overseas including; The Ceramic Review Prize Awarded at Ceramic Art London and The Poole Pottery Award at New Designers. His work can be found in public collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and National Museum, Scotland and private collections worldwide. In 2014 one of Matthew Chambers sculptures was acquired by the Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres in Paris and in 2017 the Musee Ariana in Geneva bought one of Matthew’s sculptures.
  
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