Statement
I combine material and symbolic fragments in a process of wild chance and precise placement, stirring myth, mystery and ritual. I look for remnants and traces, where meaning has been lost or eroded - in buildings, books, archives and museums. These are touchpoints in a process that connects, repairs and builds routes into our shared psychological spaces. By working within the texture and weave of fragments, new works emerge that are like signs from a half-remembered language, hovering between the known and the unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch with thoughts, feedback or questions, and for studio visits, collaborations or availablity of work.
Contact
Email: ︎
@MatthewRichardsonArtist (Ceramics)
@MatthewRubble (Images / Research / Archive)
I combine material and symbolic fragments in a process of wild chance and precise placement, stirring myth, mystery and ritual. I look for remnants and traces, where meaning has been lost or eroded - in buildings, books, archives and museums. These are touchpoints in a process that connects, repairs and builds routes into our shared psychological spaces. By working within the texture and weave of fragments, new works emerge that are like signs from a half-remembered language, hovering between the known and the unknown, and the magical and the everyday.
Please get in touch with thoughts, feedback or questions, and for studio visits, collaborations or availablity of work.
Contact
Email: ︎
@MatthewRichardsonArtist (Ceramics)
@MatthewRubble (Images / Research / Archive)
Biography
Matthew Richardson lives and works in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating objects and images from archival fragments and waste. He works in clay, collage and other media, in contexts including installation, print, bookworks, moving image 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 in the UK, Europe and USA.
CV Archive Contact
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
Matthew Richardson lives and works in Norwich, UK. He studied at Central St Martins, UWIC Cardiff (MA) and Kingston School of Art (PhD), creating objects and images from archival fragments and waste. He works in clay, collage and other media, in contexts including installation, print, bookworks, moving image 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 in the UK, Europe and USA.
CV Archive Contact
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
