Pots fascinate Matthew Warner because they embody and articulate so much information about society and culture. They are relics or signals of taste, social behaviour, and cultural history. Their forms are incredibly diverse and at the same time carry a universal understanding. 

These everyday objects span social divides and convey very concentrated messages about their environment. With a particular interested in the social connotations of these objects throughout history, and more specifically how they have been deployed to promote ideas of class, power, and even moral understanding, his new work explores these perceptions of status and how they are influenced by functionality, social environment, material, and ideas of luxury.