Matthew Snead is a London-based multimedia artist working across ceramics, paper and video. A graduate of the London College of Communication he has also made award-winning documentaries.
Matthew trained at renowned schools including Crown Works Pottery, Umber Works, and Earthworks. Driven by a desire to reimagine traditional expectations around pottery, Snead’s work resists preciousness and predictability.
This artist crafts utilitarian pieces by firmly collaborating with the clay itself, creating works that don’t rely on a decorative function to assert their presence. Often acting as quiet collaborators in performance, installation, scent, or image, his ceramics offer tactile counterpoints grounded in neo-materialist philosophy.
At the heart of Snead’s process lies a conversation with clay: where will this living material let me take it? How far has it already come? What mood is it in? How will we meet in the middle?
Matthew's work has been exhibited and programmed all over the world at venues and events including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art London, Flare London, MIX NYC, the YVY Environmental and Mountain Film Festival Brazil and the De Bailie Amsterdam.
