Phd viva solo exhibition
On edge
This solo exhibition was created by a practice-led PhD student Wen-Hsi Chen /Harman 陳文曦.
It documents her four years full-time study and development process. Her thesis is on edge: exploring cross-cultural identity through ceramic practice. Her research question: how can a creative practitioner explore cultural identity and 'inbetween-ness' through developing a language that brings together studio practice and fieldwork?
Her ceramic practice investigates cross-cultural identity through clay. Living away from her homeland gives her a clearer perspective of the culture in which she grew up. These experiences have provided a platform from which she can address cross-cultural questions.
Wen-Hsi creates a series of ceramic works based on handmade sculptural porcelain spoons, fingerprints, bananas, and traditional Chinese characters to explore tension of cross-cultural identity, between the East and the West through clay.
List of work
1.Taiwanese bananas
Earthenware. Porcelain. Mould-making. 2014-2016
2.Fingerprints
Porcelain. Gold Lustre. Enamels. Handmade. 2015
3. 8 Hours
Plastic tubes, Porcelain, Handmade.2013-2014
4. Taiwan
Porcelain. Handmade. Gold Lustre. Enamels. Handmade.2014-2017
5. Sculptural spoons
Porcelain. Handmade. 2013-2014
6. 10 minutes Film
2013 It is a ten minute film that you can view here: Vimeo https://vimeo.com/79514968
7. The language of ceramics
Original stored at New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum
From 20 February to 15 March in 2016 in Taiwan.
Earthenware slip. 2016-2017
I passed my PhD viva on the 21st April 2017
Bath Spa University. School of Art and Design. Sion Hill Gallery.
This solo exhibition was created by a practice-led PhD student Wen-Hsi Chen /Harman 陳文曦.
It documents her four years full-time study and development process. Her thesis is on edge: exploring cross-cultural identity through ceramic practice. Her research question: how can a creative practitioner explore cultural identity and 'inbetween-ness' through developing a language that brings together studio practice and fieldwork?
Her ceramic practice investigates cross-cultural identity through clay. Living away from her homeland gives her a clearer perspective of the culture in which she grew up. These experiences have provided a platform from which she can address cross-cultural questions.
Wen-Hsi creates a series of ceramic works based on handmade sculptural porcelain spoons, fingerprints, bananas, and traditional Chinese characters to explore tension of cross-cultural identity, between the East and the West through clay.
List of work
1.Taiwanese bananas
Earthenware. Porcelain. Mould-making. 2014-2016
2.Fingerprints
Porcelain. Gold Lustre. Enamels. Handmade. 2015
3. 8 Hours
Plastic tubes, Porcelain, Handmade.2013-2014
4. Taiwan
Porcelain. Handmade. Gold Lustre. Enamels. Handmade.2014-2017
5. Sculptural spoons
Porcelain. Handmade. 2013-2014
6. 10 minutes Film
2013 It is a ten minute film that you can view here: Vimeo https://vimeo.com/79514968
7. The language of ceramics
Original stored at New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum
From 20 February to 15 March in 2016 in Taiwan.
Earthenware slip. 2016-2017
I passed my PhD viva on the 21st April 2017
Bath Spa University. School of Art and Design. Sion Hill Gallery.
