Wen-Hsi (Chen) Harman
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          • Coquette Cornucopia. Walcot Chapel.Fringe Art Bath. Bath. UK
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          • imaginary landscape
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        • Only porcelain
        • Mediterranean Ceramics and their Global Influence (Portugal)
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        • 63rd Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition 'Ceramics in love-Marco Polo' competition 2024'
        • 31st Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art 'Mediterraneo' - Grottaglie 2024
        • 5th Siegburg Ceramics Award
        • 30th Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art 'Mediterranean'
        • 17th International Exhibition of Small Form Porcelain 'Pure Color' Riga Porcelain Museum
        • P/ART (Producers art fair) Hamburg. Germany
        • The ceramic festival in Skælskør,Denmark
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        • Pop ceramic art exhibition. Taipei.Taiwan
        • Drawn by stones. 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Australia
        • The 8th Gyeonggi International ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea 2015
        • 東京國際飯店 Tokyo International Hotel. Taipei. Taiwan
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      • 2025 SERDE Interdisciplinary Artist residency. Aizpute. Lativa
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      • Forgotten Landscape 被遺忘的山水
      • 8小時.8Hours - 28800秒
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    • 2025 Creative calligraphy (Lativa)
    • 2025 Paint your own handmade wheel throw Bud vase.(UK)
    • 2025 Creative calligraphy (Bristol. UK)
    • 2025 Creative calligraphy. (Istanbul. Turkey)
    • 2024 Paint your own handmade porcelain Christmas decorations (5Dec 2024 UK)
    • 2024 paint your own handmade porcelain Christmas decorations! (UK)
    • 2024 Paint your own handmade pottery mug (UK)
    • 2024 Paint your own handmade pottery mug (Uk)
    • 2024 South Bristol Arts Trail (UK) workshop
    • 2023 Iceland冰島 8-9 years old kids
    • 2023 Iceland. 10-12 years old. 冰島.
    • 2020 Bath (UK) Workshop
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    • 在之中 In-betweenness
    • Porcelain Rose petals
    • 臺灣香蕉 Taiwanese bananas
    • The sculptural spoons
    • A Disappearing Culture – The Amis earthenware tradition in Taiwan
    • Land series
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    • Early Stage Researcher Conference 2017: Impact
    • Early Stage Researcher conference 2016
    • 16 July 2015 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark.
    • 8th Annual Conference of Taiwanese Young Scholars in Europe
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Rose Petals

My artwork: Handmade Royal porcelain rose petals (made in 2014), is an exploration of the concept of 'in-betweenness' between my homeland Taiwan and second-homeland Britain, between the East and the West.  By reflecting on my experiences of living away from my homeland, I gain a clearer perspective on the culture in which I grew up. This cross-cultural experience provides a platform to ask questions about my cultural identity,  and how I can express and communicate my experience of 'in-betweenness'—a state where I can find balance and resilience to cope with the challenges of living between two cultures.
My ceramic practice, I engage in a meditative process, using the tips of my thumbs and forefingers to create tiny, careful movements. These actions represent my own small voice and the delicate balance between pressing and pushing, inhaling and exhaling. Each small porcelain fingerprint embodies a reconstruction of my cultural identity, symbolizing the intimate and personal nature of this exploration.

By referencing cherry blossoms and gender issue (Blue and Pink colour) through the use of pink color, my artwork evokes a sense of beauty, transience, and cultural symbolism. Additionally, this piece investigates the interplay between material culture, particularly the relationship between plastic and ceramics, highlighting how these two materials influence each other. Through this exploration, my work emphasizes the ongoing negotiation of identity and cultural exchange in a globalized world.Firing at different temperatures (1000 to 1230 degrees) to achieve variations in the pink color adds another layer of complexity and depth to my work. It not only highlights the material's properties but also mirrors the theme of 'in-betweenness' by showing how subtle changes can lead to different outcomes.

Using the eight plastic tubes in my artwork to symbolize the eight-hour time difference between Britain and Taiwan during the summer. This choice could effectively highlight the literal and metaphorical distance between the two cultures and emphasize the sense of disconnection or in-betweenness that I explore in my work. The time gap is a way to represent how, even though the two places are connected, there is a persistent separation that affects daily life, communication, and cultural experience. It's a way to bring attention to the themes of time, space, and the complexities of cross-cultural identity.  
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