artist statement
I find poetics in the transformation of materials, working with an approach that is both subversive and experimental. My practice centers on the interrogation of ideas, emotions, color combinations, and material boundaries. My recent work explores the materiality of glaze as a primary sculptural medium, rather than as a surface treatment for clay. I investigate the blurred boundaries between glaze, clay, and glass, and often incorporate natural materials such as wood ash and stones. By pushing material behavior beyond its expected limits, I am interested in how ceramic materials can carry meaning, resist categorisation, or reflect broader ideas of change, decay, and transformation. 

我在材料的轉化過程中尋找詩意，並以一種顛覆且實驗性的方式進行創作。我的創作實踐以對觀念、情感、色彩組合與材料定義的探問為核心。近期的作品將釉藥視為主要的雕塑媒介並以手揑方式進行塑型，而非僅僅作為陶土的表面處理。 透過探索釉藥、陶土與玻璃之間模糊的定義，並結合天然素材，如木灰與石頭等使陶瓷物料超越既定限制。我關注陶瓷材料如何承載意義和重新定義，或反映出更廣泛的變化、腐化與轉化的概念。

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, France, Japan, and Hong Kong. In 2024, Lai was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Cultural Exchange Grant to attend an artist-in-residence programme at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park.

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。2024年獲英國西迪恩學院(West Dean College) 頒授獎學金到英國交流， 跟隨自然釉藥學者Miranda Forest研究自然釉薬配方，同年亦獲得香港藝術發展局文化交流基金資助到日本信樂陶藝之森駐場創作。

photo credit: Gareth Hacker

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