Ceramic artist and curator Matt Smith will be talking about how art has presented history as a fixed and accurate account of the past and how he brings this to light by creating ‘lost objects’ and repurposing existing objects in new situations.

About the speaker

Matt Smith is an artist who works with museum collections. Solo exhibitions include Losing Venus at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Flux: Parian Unpacked at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Who Owns History? At Hove Museum, and Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum.

In 2010 he co-founded Unravelled Arts, curating artist interventions at National Trust properties and in 2015/16 he was artist in residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He holds a PhD in Queer Craft and was Professor of Craft at Konstfack, Stockholm.
Matt’s work is held at the V&A, the Walker Art Gallery, the National Museum Oslo, National Museum of Northern Ireland and the Crafts Council collection.