Matthew Raw

Ceramic artist, former V&A maker in residence and co-founder of the Manifold collective, Matthew Raw uses clay to explore the connections between people and place.

A ceramics artist and Jerwood Prize winner who seeks to push the possibilities of clay to communicate and to challenge public perceptions of what it can do as a material, Matthew Raw uses tiles and letterforms to tell the stories of people and places. He is a co-founder of Manifold Studio, an artistic collective of nine RCA graduates, and has participated in group shows, collaborative projects and exhibitions in London, Munich, Copenhagen, Detroit and more – including an Art on the Underground project at Seven Sisters with architecture collective Assemble. Matthew shares his skills and vision by running frequent public workshops in ceramics. During a six-month residency at the V&A’s Ceramics Studio, he began pulling together the ideas for his first UK solo show, CLAD –  an exhibition of eight sculptural works exploring Britain’s historic relationship to craft cultures that took place at the Ragged School Museum in Mile End during London Craft Week 2017. In 2019, he followed this with Tactile Change – a ceramic exploration of progress and migration, refracted through the story of Plymouth Zoo.