About
I find, make and use material and symbolic fragments in a playful process that embraces chance, breakage, and the physical limitations of the materials I am working with. In the last few years I have been making ceramic objects and collages.
I am interested in time, language and structures - how things are built and can then fall apart, and how meaning endures, changes or breaks down across time and context.
I am drawn to the fragmentary, and look for ways to make elements fit - technically and poetically. Images and objects evolve through a process of sifting, ordering, forming and reforming, in an ongoing play between wild chance and meticulous placement. I like the way clay is a material that records a history of its making and how firing and glazing creates an unpredictable alchemy that produces its own mystery. The pieces that emerge feel like signs from a half-remembered language that hover between the known and unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch for further information, to talk about projects, or for currently available work.
Contact
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Instagram: @MatthewRichardsonArtist (ceramics, assemblage)
@MatthewRubble (print, paint)
I find, make and use material and symbolic fragments in a playful process that embraces chance, breakage, and the physical limitations of the materials I am working with. In the last few years I have been making ceramic objects and collages.
I am interested in time, language and structures - how things are built and can then fall apart, and how meaning endures, changes or breaks down across time and context.
I am drawn to the fragmentary, and look for ways to make elements fit - technically and poetically. Images and objects evolve through a process of sifting, ordering, forming and reforming, in an ongoing play between wild chance and meticulous placement. I like the way clay is a material that records a history of its making and how firing and glazing creates an unpredictable alchemy that produces its own mystery. The pieces that emerge feel like signs from a half-remembered language that hover between the known and unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch for further information, to talk about projects, or for currently available work.
Contact
Email: ︎
Instagram: @MatthewRichardsonArtist (ceramics, assemblage)
@MatthewRubble (print, paint)
Bio
Matthew Richardson lives and works in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating experimental visual work from archival fragments and waste. He has worked across various media and contexts including installation, printmaking, bookworks and illustration. 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 across the UK, Europe and USA.
Recent exhibitions
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.
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Matthew Richardson lives and works in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating experimental visual work from archival fragments and waste. He has worked across various media and contexts including installation, printmaking, bookworks and illustration. 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 across the UK, Europe and USA.
Recent exhibitions
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.
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