About Matt Davis; Design & Craft for Interiors & Architecture

 

As the vessel can be seen as a pivotal marker in the development of civilisation, this work aims to mark society in the Information Age.

Pastiche archetypes are created by combining digital sand traditional techniques, resulting in parody by using high technology to make ‘lo-tech’ artefacts.

The immortalisation of intangible code by transmuting organic matter is central to the work’s theme of dualism, paradoxically presenting virtual forms in physical reality.

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After 15 years in the digital design field Matt Davis returned to follow his initial passion for clay which resulted in 1st class honours with a Masters in Design.

Since graduating in 2016 the work has been featured in books by Sasha Wardell (Porcelain and Bone China (Second Edition) Crowood) and Louisa Taylor (Ceramics Masterclass, Thames & Hudson). It has also published in such magazines as Wallpaper*, Financial Times ‘How to spend it’, Architectural Digest (Germany) and Elle Decoration.

In 2019 Davis registered his designs for the first modular 3D, geometic tiles in the UK with the Intellectual Property Office. These have subsequently been commissioned by the St. Austell Bay Trust for permanent public installation in 2020.

Works are currently held in private collections and in the permanent collection at the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.

Selected Awards:
Future Heritage 2017
Heal’s Discovers 2017
CPA: Emmanuel Cooper Prize 2017
Richard Seager Bursary Award 2016

Selected exhibitions


2020:
• Tremen Public Art Comission. St. Austell, Cornwall
• Beyond Piranesi Comission. Dublin Castle (postponed till 2021)

2019:
• London Art Fair. Represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery
• Collect, Saatchi Gallery. Represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery
• Moved house & built a studio!

2018:
• Collect. Saatchi Gallery. Represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery
• Cynthia Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition. Pall Mall, London
• Doddington Hall Sculpture Biennial. Lincoln.
• Ceramic Art London. Central St. Martins, London
• MIAR Arts. 9a, Hove Place, Brighton

2017:
• Decorex; Future Heritage. Syon Park, London
• Heals Discovers 2017. Heals, London
• ECAlab Collaboration. RIBA North, Liverpool
• New Designers; One Year On. Business Design Centre, London
• Ceramic Art London. Central St. Martins, London
• Rising Stars 2017. New Ashgate gallery, Farnham

2016:
• Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Manchester
• Handmade in Britain. Chelsea Town Hall, London
• Art in Clay. Pottery & Ceramics Festival, Hatfield House
• New Designers. Business Design Centre, London