Statement
I create objects and images that evolve through making, finding and melding material and symbolic fragments in a playful process of wild chance and precise placement. I navigate spaces, stages, routes and journeys, meandering between the mysteries and rituals of life. I look at partial ‘evidence’ as starting points - where purpose or meaning might have been lost or eroded - in diagrams, debris, signs and tools. I look at edges and borders where nature reclaims culture. By playing amongst the texture and weave of fragments, works emerge that are like signs from a half-remembered language, hovering between the known and unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch for further information, to talk about projects, or for enquiries about available work.
Contact
Email: ︎
DM: @MatthewRichardsonArtist (Ceramics)
DM: @MatthewRubble (Image / Print / Archive)
CV Archive Contact
I create objects and images that evolve through making, finding and melding material and symbolic fragments in a playful process of wild chance and precise placement. I navigate spaces, stages, routes and journeys, meandering between the mysteries and rituals of life. I look at partial ‘evidence’ as starting points - where purpose or meaning might have been lost or eroded - in diagrams, debris, signs and tools. I look at edges and borders where nature reclaims culture. By playing amongst the texture and weave of fragments, works emerge that are like signs from a half-remembered language, hovering between the known and unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch for further information, to talk about projects, or for enquiries about available work.
Contact
Email: ︎
DM: @MatthewRichardsonArtist (Ceramics)
DM: @MatthewRubble (Image / Print / Archive)
CV Archive Contact
Biography
Matthew Richardson is based in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating visual work from archival fragments and waste. He has worked across various media and contexts including installation, print, bookworks and illustration. In recent years he has been working with clay, collage and assemblage. His work has been shown in both gallery and museum spaces such as Outpost, Transition, g39, Hweg, Kingston Museum and The Beaney. Commissions have included projects with the V&A, the British Library and the Poetry Society. Work is held in collections of MOMA Wales, the Brecknock Art Trust and private collections in the UK, Europe and USA.
Recent exhibitions
2026 ‘Points of Encounter’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 2026 ‘The Garden Comes Inside’ Bolwick Hall, Norfolk 2026 ‘Slip’ Oceans Apart, Salford 2026 ‘InProximity’, Norwich Castle & Art Gallery, Norwich 2026 ‘RA Summer Exhibition’, London 2025 ‘Pylos’, Electro Studios, St Leonards 2025 ‘Laying The Table For Nothing’, Wolterton Hall, Norfolk 2025 ‘Socially Distanced’, Wellington Yard, Liverpool 2025 ‘RA Summer Exhibition’, London 2025 ‘Irving Open’, Irving Gallery, Oxford 2025 ‘Soft Verge’, They Come They Sit, They Go, London 2025 ‘Process’, Partnership Editions 2025 ‘Pedestal’, 19a Gallery, Brighton 2025 ‘Falling Faintly Faintly Falling’, They Come They Sit They Go, London 2024 ‘All That Glitters’, Ubicua Gallery, London 2024 ‘Flat Earth’ (with Mark Scott-Wood), The Assembly House, Norwich 2024 ‘Make Yourself at Home’, Hweg, Penzance, Cornwall.
Matthew Richardson is based in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating visual work from archival fragments and waste. He has worked across various media and contexts including installation, print, bookworks and illustration. In recent years he has been working with clay, collage and assemblage. His work has been shown in both gallery and museum spaces such as Outpost, Transition, g39, Hweg, Kingston Museum and The Beaney. Commissions have included projects with the V&A, the British Library and the Poetry Society. Work is held in collections of MOMA Wales, the Brecknock Art Trust and private collections in the UK, Europe and USA.
Recent exhibitions
2026 ‘Points of Encounter’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 2026 ‘The Garden Comes Inside’ Bolwick Hall, Norfolk 2026 ‘Slip’ Oceans Apart, Salford 2026 ‘InProximity’, Norwich Castle & Art Gallery, Norwich 2026 ‘RA Summer Exhibition’, London 2025 ‘Pylos’, Electro Studios, St Leonards 2025 ‘Laying The Table For Nothing’, Wolterton Hall, Norfolk 2025 ‘Socially Distanced’, Wellington Yard, Liverpool 2025 ‘RA Summer Exhibition’, London 2025 ‘Irving Open’, Irving Gallery, Oxford 2025 ‘Soft Verge’, They Come They Sit, They Go, London 2025 ‘Process’, Partnership Editions 2025 ‘Pedestal’, 19a Gallery, Brighton 2025 ‘Falling Faintly Faintly Falling’, They Come They Sit They Go, London 2024 ‘All That Glitters’, Ubicua Gallery, London 2024 ‘Flat Earth’ (with Mark Scott-Wood), The Assembly House, Norwich 2024 ‘Make Yourself at Home’, Hweg, Penzance, Cornwall.
