Matthew Chambers
Matthew’s influences and inspirations for his beautiful circular sculptures include, geometric and optical art, constructivist themes, and modern architecture and design. He pursues these interests in an abstract sense by exploring shape and making mathematically constructed pieces in clay, each built up of many different wheel-thrown sections. On completion, each form conveys different and individual properties of space, light, and colour, and sustains an expression of abstract and rhythmical beauty from its pattern of shape.
Matthew’s sculptures are made using either an earthenware or stoneware clay, with colours added directly into the body of clay. When each form has been constructed, several weeks are allowed for slow drying to minimise shrinkage and warping problems. Once dry the piece is sculpted to achieve a finer shape and then low fired. It is sanded and then high fired again. Once fully fired each piece is polished once again, this time with diamond abrasives to help achieve a very smooth overall finish.
Following a six year apprenticeship with Phillip Wood in Frome, Somerset, Matthew went on to gain a BA (Hons) 1st Class in ceramics at BSUC, Bath. He then went to the Royal College of Art, obtaining an MA in Ceramics and Glass. He has won numerous awards both in the UK and overseas including; The Ceramic Review Prize Awarded at Ceramic Art London and The Poole Pottery Award at New Designers. His work can be found in public collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the National Museum, Scotland, The Ulster Museum, Belfast, the Swiss national museum of ceramics and glass – the Musée Ariana, Geneva and the Musee National de Ceramique de Sevres, France and private collections worldwide.
In 2018, Matthew’s work was selected by the Michaelangelo Foundation for Homo Faber in Venice. The work was included in the Best of Europe exhibit where hundreds of exceptional works were showcased created by some 150 artist-artisans from all over Europe.
See Matthew Chambers in Our Collecting Craft Feature
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Earth Twist, 2024 SoldView more details
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Rings, 2024£ 6,000.00View more details
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Twist (blue and red), 2024 SoldView more details
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Twist Blue , 2024 SoldView more details
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Eclipse, 2022£ 3,500.00View more details
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Two Tone Twist, 2023£ 3,200.00View more details
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Two Tone Twist, 2022£ 1,540.00View more details
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Twist, 2023 SoldView more details
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Blue Twist, 2023 SoldView more details
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Bud I, 2022 SoldView more details
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Bud II, 2022 SoldView more details
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Increase Outside, 2023 SoldView more details
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Eclipse Sand, 2022 SoldView more details
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Increase/Decrease, 2022 SoldView more details
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Nest, 2022 SoldView more details
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Symmetry Fade, 2022 SoldView more details
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Twist Blue and Orange , 2022 SoldView more details
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Twist Outside, 2022 SoldView more details
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Twist Smooth Red, 2022 SoldView more details
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Vessel I, 2022 SoldView more details
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Earth Red Slow Twist sculpture, 2020 SoldView more details
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Twist Pastel Blue, 2021 SoldView more details
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Revolve, 2021View more details
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Increase Yellow, 2021 SoldView more details
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20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since.Read more
For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio.
Revisit this exhibition online now.
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Missed us at Collect 2024?
Our presentation is available to view and purchase online 28 Feb - 31 Mar 2024Missed us at Collect? See the collection and installation images here. For Collect 2024 at Somerset House Cavaliero Finn presented The Alchemy of Nature at the fair featuring work by...Read more -
Winter - The weakening eye of day
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE - 22nd-26th November, 11am - 7pm Wed-Sat 11am-4pm Sun 22 - 26 Nov 2023In November 2023, Cavaliero Finn presented a selection of artworks at Cromwell Place chosen to evoke winter in different ways, whether it’s capturing the essence of it through light and colour, the sense of decay through texture and material, or the sense of beauty hope and renewal through composition and context. The Winter exhibition was dedicated to artist Judith Tucker who died suddenly on Monday November 13th 2023.Read more -
Elemental Lines
Cavaliero Finn at Ballroom Arts 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AQ UK 8 - 18 Jun 2023This exhibition, which coincided with the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, took place in Ballroom Arts a beautiful space overlooking the North Sea. Elemental Lines examined how the lines of the...Read more
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Collect Art Fair 2023
1 - 5 Mar 2023At the start of March we presented the work of 14 of our artists at the Crafts Council's international contemporary craft fair, Collect 2023 at Somerset House in London. The...Read more -
Hint - Cavaliero Finn at Gallery 475
475 Fulham Road, London SW6 1HL 6 - 18 Dec 2022Cavaliero Finn is pleased to announce news of its next exhibition, Hint, a group show featuring pairings of two and three dimensional art works that echo each other in some way, whether it's a hint of colour, form or pattern or even subject matter.Read more -
Decorative Fair Autumn 2022
Contemporary on the Mezzanine, Battersea Park, London 4 - 9 Oct 2022Cavaliero Finn Presents The Art of Geometry at Contemporary on the MezzanineRead more
Exhibiting alongside some of the UK’s leading gallieries in modern craft and design, Cavaliero Finn will present - The Art of Geometry - a collection of work featuring geometric abstraction inspired by diverse but interrelated references. -
Artefact 2022
The contemporary craft fair at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London 10 - 15 May 2022Artefact, is a contemporary craft fair which brings the joy of the handmade to an audience of designers, architects, collectors and enthusiasts, illustrating the increasing importance of craft to the interior design industry. It features objects of astonishing artistic merit courtesy of a host international galleries in the Design Avenue. An accompanying programme of specialist talks and demonstrations helps bring the contemporary craft to life.Read more
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Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, London
The leading contemporary craft and design fair 25 Feb - 6 Mar 2022Cavaliero Finn was delighted to return to London's beautiful Somerset House for Collect which took place this year from 25-27 February 2022 with previews on 23-24 February 2022. Cavaliero Finn presented work by 15 artists at Collect including work by Edmond Byrne, Matthew Chambers, Simon Gaiger, Ashraf Hanna, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Ikuko Iwamoto, Mimi Joung, Sun Kim, Nicholas Lees, Cecilia Moore, Frances Priest, Daniel Reynolds, Katharine Swailes, Annie Turner and Jacy Wall.Read more -
Crafting a Difference at the Argentine Ambassador's Official Residence
Part of London Craft Week 4 - 10 Oct 2021Crafting a Difference at the Official Residence of the Argentine Ambassador in Belgrave Square, London runs from October 4th -10th. The exhibition celebrates outstanding international contemporary craft set within the magnificent architecture, décor and fabric of the Argentine Ambassador’s Official Residence, in the frame of London Craft Week 2021, with support from the Crafts Council, QEST, Loewe Foundation, Michelangelo Foundation, Cockpit Arts, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour and Artegian Design.Read more -
ARTEFACT: The Contemporary Craft Fair
22 - 29 Jun 2021Attracting top designers, architects, collectors and art lovers, Artefact will feature an impressive roll call of contemporary craft and visual arts galleries including; Oxford Ceramics, Katie Jones, Lloyd Choi Gallery,...Read more -
Crafting a Difference at SoShiro – Collect Fair Edit
23 Feb - 2 Apr 2021This exhibition, featuring new work by our artists, will coincide with the Craft Council’s Collect Virtual Fair. If we’ve learnt one thing over the last 12 months is that plans...Read more
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Crafting a Difference at SoShiro – London Art Fair Edition
22 Jan - 15 Feb 2021We are proud to be part of Crafting a Difference at SoShiro – a physical exhibition of innovative craftsmanship housed in a beautiful townhouse in Marylebone, London. Curated by Brian...Read more -
FOCUS/20
Cavaliero Finn presents work by eight leading ceramicists 14 - 25 Sep 2020We are back from a short summer break and, for the first time since lockdown, we are exhibiting again and the good news is that there’s still time to see...Read more -
Collect 2020
27 Feb - 1 Mar 2020Earlier this year Cavaliero Finn exhibited at Collect, the Crafts Council’s international art fair for modern craft and design, held at Somerset House, Collect’s new venue, showcasing the work of...Read more -
Alter
27 Nov - 1 Dec 2019“Alter”, a ceramic exhibition presented by Cavaliero Finn at Fitzrovia Chapel examines the transformative qualities of clay and the belief in the transformative power of material thinking through innovation and experimentation.Read more
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Fine contemporary ceramics: artists you need to know and how to collect them
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Architectural Digest - Inside a Strikingly Modern Palm Spring Weekend Home by Woods + Dangaran
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Concentric Vessels Nest Within Larger Forms in Matthew Chambers’ Perplexing Ceramic Sculptures
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Don't Miss: ALTER
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Good at acting, “Terrible at art”
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Alter, featuring Akiko Hirai
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SOUTH LONDON’S COOLEST ART FAIRS
The Resident, May 2, 2014
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Museum Acquisition News - Ulster Museum acquires work by Matthew Chambers
April 1, 2023We're delighted that Blue Twist, 2023 by Matthew Chambers was acquired by Ulster Museum in Belfast at Collect 2023. A big thank you to curator...Read more -
Museum Acquisition News - Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum acquires new sculpture by Matthew Chambers from Cavaliero Finn at Collect 2019 March 11, 2019The Victoria and Albert Museum acquires new sculpture by Matthew Chambers from Cavaliero Finn at Collect 2019Read more
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Earth Twist, 2024 Sold
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Rings, 2024£ 6,000.00
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Twist (blue and red), 2024 Sold
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Twist Blue , 2024 Sold
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Eclipse, 2022£ 3,500.00
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Two Tone Twist, 2023£ 3,200.00
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Two Tone Twist, 2022£ 1,540.00
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Twist, 2023 Sold
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Blue Twist, 2023 Sold
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Bud I, 2022 Sold
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Bud II, 2022 Sold
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Increase Outside, 2023 Sold
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Eclipse Sand, 2022 Sold
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Increase/Decrease, 2022 Sold
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Nest, 2022 Sold
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Symmetry Fade, 2022 Sold
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Twist Blue and Orange , 2022 Sold
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Twist Outside, 2022 Sold
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Twist Smooth Red, 2022 Sold
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Vessel I, 2022 Sold
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Revolve, 2021
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Increase Yellow, 2021 Sold