Nathan Nhan

About the work

1) Trophy #1 2022
ceramic, glaze
26.5 x 15.5 x 15 cm.

2) blue and white trophy 2022
ceramic, glaze
dimensions variable

3) trophy #3 2022
ceramic, glaze
dimensions variable

4) blacked out 2022
ceramic, glaze
dimensions variable

5) trophy #4 2022
ceramic, glaze
dimensions variable

The work is a series of ceramic-based sculptural vessels focused on contextualizing the vessel as a vehicle of communicating identities and stories. The object encapsulating the lived experience and providing stories to the viewer of potential similarities and likeness. These sculptural vessels are trophies and treated as such serving proper recognition or evidence of merit within the lived experience.

About the artist

Nathan Nhan (b. 1997, Canberra, ACT) is a ceramicist whose practice uses experimental making and the ceramic process as a tool to create, investigate and manifest identities within his work. Responding to the inherent materiality and cultural significance of ceramics, Nhan reflects upon concepts of place, community and identity from an Asian Australian perspective. He often employs traditional vessels as a foundation, transforming historical forms into contemporary vehicles that play with the medium’s enduring epic narrative of both Eastern and Western perspectives imbued with personal stories and social commentary.