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Crooked Clay, Crooked Clay : Lost Coastlines
Self taught potter Matt Jones makes work under the moniker Crooked Clay, Crooked Clay.
Matt began pottery in 2016 and quickly fell for the movement of the clay on the wheel. This interest in movement is central to his work today and his aim to capture this process of movement in the finished pieces: A pot that reveals the process of creation.
Working with porcelain clay, he uses stains to colour the clay itself, which then combine during the throwing process. Once off the wheel the only addition is a transparent internal glaze, with outsides left raw and natural.
For his exhibition with Make Southwest Matt has created a body of work called ‘Lost Coastlines’.
“We packed up all of our bags
The ship's deck now sags from the weight of our tracks
As we pace beneath flags black and battered
Rattling our swords in service of some faded foreign lord
And we sail out on orders from him but we find
The maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines
Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined
For we don't recognise the names upon these signs”
All pieces are thrown and fired in his basement studio in Exeter, Devon.
