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MATTHEW LLOYD

Hereford College of Art, MA Contemporary Crafts

Setting out to develop a practice with flourishing as his primary intent, Matthew’s work engages with clay soil as a medium, focusing on three distinct themes; wellbeing, making, and sharing, explored through sensitive interventions.

Working en plain air Matthew produces open and closed artefacts, embedding narratives through direct indexing of forms and the burning of foraged organic matter during the firing process. Sharing making is explored through pinch pot workshops, engaging in raw clay soil. Here he finds communal well-being through making, leading to profound shifts of personal perspectives and approaches to material engagement.

Far left: Fired Netherwood Pinch pot, raw clay soil, wood fired. Left: Ynyslas Knot, August 2022, Ynyslas, Ceredigion, foraged clay and sand. Above: Netherwood Pinch pots firing inside a hand-made clay oven.

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