artist statement
I find poetics in the transformation of material through working in the approach both subversive and experimental. The interrogation of an idea, color combinations and material experimentation are prominent in my practice.

「從陶瓷物料的轉化中，我尋找出微妙的詩意，嘗試打破陶瓷的傳統製作，通過色彩和物料的實驗，捕捉在燒製過程中瓷⼟和釉藥瞬間的變化。」

bio
Ho Lai is a ceramic artist from Hong Kong. Her work explores the contemporary nature of ceramics, experimenting with the materials and processes involved in its creation. In 2016, she graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Hong Kong Baptist University attaining a BA in Visual Arts, and was awarded the AVA Keeper of Studies Collection Award. In 2019 Lai graduated from the Royal College of Art attained MA in Ceramics & Glass and was awarded The Grocer’s Hall Scholarship. Upon graduation, she was shortlisted as one of the FRESH exhibition emerging artists at the British Ceramics Biennial. In 2021, she was shortlisted as the British Ceramics Biennial AWARD exhibition headline artist and was commissioned to create a wall installation exhibited in Stoke-on-Trent, the ceramics capital in the UK. She was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Applied Arts and the XVII International Contemporary Ceramics Award in the same year. Her works are exhibited widely in the UK, Spain, Belgium, and Hong Kong.

黎晧， 香港陶藝家，其作品以探索陶瓷的當代性及實驗材料為主。2016年於香港浸會大學視覺藝術院取得學士學位(榮譽)， 隨後於2019年在英國皇家藝術學院取得陶瓷及玻璃碩士學位，並獲頒發英國商會會堂獎學金，同年入圍英國陶瓷雙年展FRESH新進藝術家獎。
2021年再次入圍英國陶瓷雙年展， 獲委約創作裝置作品於英國瓷都 - 史篤城展出，
成為香港首位競逐英國陶瓷雙年展AWARD 展覽大獎的年青陶藝家。黎氏亦於同年入圍歐洲應用藝術獎以及西班牙第17屆國際當代陶瓷獎，作品曾於英國、西班牙、比利時及香港等地展出。

photo credit: Gareth Hacker

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