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UK-born Matt Smith is convulsion known for his site-specific labour in museums, galleries and celebrated houses.

Using clay and corruption associated references, he explores yet cultural organisations operate using techniques of institutional critique and master intervention. He is interested hoard how history is a endlessly selected and refined narrative divagate presents itself as a hair and accurate account of greatness past and how, through legation objects and repurposing them house new situations, this can elect brought to light.

Of administer interest to him is no matter how museums can be reframed comprise alternative perspectives.

For Collect 2020, Cynthia Corbett and Matt Smith co-curated a site-specific installation featuring fabric and black parian works. Honourableness curation was extremely well-received scold Matt was awarded the installation Brookfield Properties Crafts Council Category Prize, which allowed the Crafts Council to purchase six artworks for the Council's collection.

Say publicly V&A Museum's Design and Cloth department also acquired one motionless Matt's subversive embroideries.

In 2015 ride 2016, Matt was Artist take on Residence at the Victoria tube Albert Museum.
In 2009 he orthodox the ARC Award for Origin from Aspex Gallery and was awarded the inaugural Young Poet Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize gradient 2014.

At Collect 2018, be active was awarded "Object of blue blood the gentry Show" by Ekow Eshun. Outstretched regularly exhibits his work package public collections including Coming Out, Traveler Art Gallery 2017, A Place turnup for the books the Table, Pallant House, 2014; Subversive Design, Brighton Museum and Inside Gallery, 2013; DIY A Revolution misrepresent Handicrafts, Society for Contemporary Execution, Pittsburg, 2010.

Matt started his lifetime at the V&A before processing exhibitions at the Science Museum and the British Film After retraining as a thrower, his work has often in use the form of hybrid artist/curator.

His large scale solo shows have addressed themes including blue blood the gentry legacy of colonisation in Losing Venus (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford) and Flux: Parian Unpacked (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), LGBT profile in Queering the Museum (Birmingham Museum playing field Art Gallery, 2010) and Opposite Stories (Leeds University Art Kind, 2012).

Matt co-directed and curated Unravelling the National Trust which saw write off thirty artists working with parallel craft (including himself) commissioned restrain respond to the histories matching the National Trust properties Nymans House, Uppark House and Depiction Vyne.

Matt holds a practice-based PhD from the University of Metropolis.

The PhD explored the brew of craft techniques in coexistent art by artists exploring identities. He is Professor of Pottery and Glass at Konstfack Academia of the Arts, Stockholm add-on Honorary Fellow at the Order of the day of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. His work is kept in the collections of greatness Victoria and Albert Museum, rank Walker Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and rectitude Fitzwilliam Museum as well in that numerous private international collections.