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Concentric Vessels Nest Within Larger Forms in Matthew Chambers』 Perplexing Ceramic Sculptures

December 14, 2021

Grace Ebert

All images © Matthew Chambers, shared with permission

At once minimal and endlessly confounding, the elegant ceramic vessels that Matthew Chambers (previously) creates are precisely scaled iterations of the same shape. His hypnotic sculptures are comprised of individual, wheel-thrown pieces in varying sizes that are embedded within a larger form. Each abstract work is unique in color and position, sometimes displaying single monochromatic rings at incongruent angles or striped colors flush in alignment.

In a note to Colossal, Chambers says his most recent pieces are an experiment in allowing the inner pattern to pop from the outer vessel. 「The process is essentially the reverse of how most of my other forms are made, and it』s still very much in the early stages of working it out,」 he says. 「I』ve also started making some upright vessel forms where the circles twist around the outside of the form from top to bottom, but again these are still very much in the early stages.」

Chambers, who』s based in St. Lawrence on the Isle of Wight, has amassed an extensive archive in the last few years, which you can dive into on his site and Instagram. If you』re in London., you can see some of his pieces on view now at Alveston Fine Art and this February with Cavaliero Finn at Collect Art Fair. He』ll also show works this coming July at Cornwall』s New Craftsman Gallery.

 

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