Matthew Snead is a London-based multimedia artist working across ceramics, paper and video.​​​A graduate of the London College of Communication's film school and an Emmy nominee, his practice spans experimental video art, ceramics and collage to award-winning Hollywood documentaries.​​ His ceramics journey began in London, with training at many 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.
He 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 and sculptural communication centred in neo-materialist philosophy.
At the heart of his process lies a conversation with clay: where will this living material let me take it? What mood is it in? How far has it already come? What do I want it to do? And 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.