Matthew Chambers

Recent works

November 4, 2023 - January 4, 2024

Matthew Chambers Twist Fade, 2023. stoneware, h. 22cm x l. 22cm x d. 11cm. Twist Fade, 2023, stoneware, h. 22cm x l. 22cm x d. 11cm

Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste is pleased to announce its first collaboration with famous British ceramic artist Matthew Chambers. Listed by Artprice among the current artists who « renew the image of ceramics », Chambers is undoubtedly a major player on the contemporary ceramics scene. Within the gallery’s space, the viewer will be amazed by the interplay of the sculptural forms and their dizzying movement.

With each passing year and exhibition, the artist has consolidated his approach and progressed along his artistic path. The twenty recent works on show breathe the culmination and plenitude of an artist always on the lookout for new construction methods to build his sculptures, demonstrating diversity through scale and color, but also beauty, intrigue and unity of form.

Matthew Chambers' works can be found in major private and public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Musée Ariana in Geneva and the Musée National de Céramique in Sèvres.

Matthew Chambers. Exhibition catalogue
Matthew Chambers in Connaissance des Arts
Matthew Chambers in the revue de la céramique et du verre

Viewed from the back, his pieces appear absolutely simple and sober. Their round volumes, with harmonious curves, offer a homogeneous surface without being smooth. No pattern distracts the eye; all that counts is this admirable surface work, whose sensuality is born of a velvety grain, powdered like pastel.
Assuming the sculpture has a front and a back, looking at its “front” side reveals what makes Matthew Chambers’s approach utterly unique. At the border of sculpture and design, each of his stoneware creations results from a complex construction, a skilful assembling of overlaid sphere fragments fitted or nested inside each other. Their edges outline clearly-drawn circles, lines that draw closer or move away from one another without ever crossing.
Guillaume Morel
Journalist and art critic,
Extract from Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue