Rosa Nguyen

Rosa Nguyen is an artist of French Vietnamese parentage born in London. She gained a BA in 3D Design at Middlesex Polytechnic, specializing in ceramics and glass blowing, and an MA in ceramics from the Royal College of Art in 1986. She taught in numerous British art schools for 25 years, including on the celebrated Ceramic BA Hons course at Camberwell in London between 1996 – 2010. She currently lives and works between London and the southwest of France, where she has established a studio and a garden from which she sources the vegetal material she works with.

Her work has been supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japan Foundation, Crafts Council, British Council and the Arts Council of England for her collaborative installations with Ikebana artists in Tokyo and London, ‘Living wall’ installation for Collect project Space at Saatchi gallery, London; Installation ‘Tree Folly with a Cercis’ at the Garden Museum, London; commissioned installation ‘Gardening with Morris’ for exhibition Arts and Crafts Then and Now at Compton Verney and her solo show ‘Sanctuary’ at Touchstone gallery for the Manchester Asia Triennial. Rosa was awarded 1st prize for the John Ruskin Art Prize in 2017.

She exhibits at home and abroad, and her work is represented in public collections in the UK, Europe, China, and Japan, including the GOSH Arts, Garden Museum collection, Touchstones Gallery, Shigeraki Museum, Aberdeen Museum and Gallery, Crafts Council collection, and Anthony Shaw collection at COCA.

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