Rosa Nguyen: Selected works, 2018-2025
Rosa makes ceramic and glass sculptural objects, vessels, drawings, and installations in the form of poetical compositional tableaux. Taking inspiration from the natural world and our holistic relationship with it, her work is characterized by organic and abstracted vessel forms and the incorporation of both living and dried botanical matter. These are assembled and manipulated through casting and preserving in both fired and clay gesso, given new life through dipping in liquid porcelain and sacrificial kiln firings which fuse and transform the combusted vegetal matter into richly glazed strange otherworldly hybrid forms.
With a long-standing interest in Animist and Oriental philosophies and taking inspiration from discrete arts such as gardening, the Japanese art of Ikebana flower arranging, astronomy, and traditional Chinese medicine – Rosa’s work evokes a contemplative aesthetic and a deep-rooted spiritual connection with nature. Her work often alludes to the invisible body, the transience between life and death, while celebrating the entangled interconnectivity between all life forms and forces.
Captions
- Immolation 1, 2025, Glazed porcelain, stoneware, combusted plants, 26 H x 19 W x 33 cm. Shown at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
- Immolation 2, 2025, Glazed porcelain, Black clay, combusted plants, 26 H x 19 W x 33 cm. Shown at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
- Lost Flowers, Fallen, 2018, glazed porcelain, combusted plants, 33 L x 23 H x 16 W cm
- Lost Flowers, Summer, 2018, glazed porcelain, combusted plants. 26 W x 26 W x 26 H cm
- Lost Flowers, Field, 2018, glazed porcelain, combusted plants, 33 L x 23 H x 16 W cm
- From the Wings of a Green Broom Moth + Dream Bardo of a Tuber, 2022, Glazed porcelain, black stoneware, combusted botanicals, 22 H x 12 W x 3 D cm
- Leaf Becoming, 2021, Glazed porcelain, combusted botanicals, 26 H x 14 W x 4 D cm
- Dreaming Root, 2021, Glazed porcelain, combusted botanicals, 27 H x 15 W x 7.5 D cm
- Lullabubs Rising, 2021, Glazed porcelain + black & white stoneware + combusted botanicals, 36 H x 18 W x 9 D cm
- Dancing Root, 2024, Wood, ink, glazed porcelain
- Natural Histories, living wall installation, 2022. Shown at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
- Ode to the Visceral, installation, 2023, Ceramic, painted wood, acrylic tubing, painted & combusted plants. Shown at GOSH Arts exhibition “Sensing Spaces of Healthcare”, London. Photos by Dan Weil
