Lauren Kalman: To Have or to Hold…, 2024

By Ceramics NowJune 5, 2026

Lauren Kalman: To Have or to Hold…, 2024 The title To Have or To Hold… is derived from traditional wedding vows and explores embodied responses to loss of control, fear, social dissonance, and the desire for human connection. The project is a meditation on building, control, and destruction. The precariousness of life. The desire to […]

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Shinhye You: Selected works, 2025-2026

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Ceramics NowJun 9, 2026

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Shinhye You

Shinhye You Shinhye You is a ceramic artist born in South Korea in 1993 and currently based in London. Shinhye’s connection with clay began in 2013 at Kookmin University in South Korea, where she earned her BA and MA in ceramics. She has been based in London since completing her MA in Ceramics & Glass […]

Ceramics NowJun 9, 2026

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Porcelain Reconsidered at Vessels + Sticks, Toronto

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Ceramics NowMay 26, 2026

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Vessel, Sculpture and Other Fictions

By Olivia Fero What if the vessel-versus-sculpture debate that has preoccupied contemporary ceramics is not merely unresolved, but unanswerable? Not a genuine question at all, but a category mistake: the philosophical error of treating one kind of thing as if it were another. The British philosopher Gilbert Ryle first deployed the category mistake in The […]

Ceramics NowMay 27, 2026

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Susie Choi: Right Side Wrong Side at Sabbia Gallery, Sydney

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Ceramics NowMay 28, 2026

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Anca Ion: Sponges, Kelps, Stones and Minerals, 2025-2026

Anca Ion: Sponges, Kelps, Stones and Minerals, 2025-2026 The Sponges feature contrasting textures. The structures are made with numerous finger-like protrusions arranged densely at the top and bottom of the composition. At the center, a rough, highly porous form made of clay and porcelain suggests a sponge-like structure. The Kelps (Spinocella) are brutalist and organic […]

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