Ho Lai

Ho Lai is a ceramic artist from Hong Kong, working in London. 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 an 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, France, Spain, Belgium, Japan and Hong Kong.

I find poetics in the transformation of material, approaching my work in ways that are both subversive and experimental. The interrogation of an idea, colour combinations and material experimentation are prominent in my practice.

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