Yu-Hua Lan

Yu-Hua Lan is a Taiwan born ceramic artist, currently living and working in Australia’s South West.

She believe that people protect what they know and love, and that by distancing humanity from nature, we will lose our understanding and appreciation of it. Her arts involving nature, simply display the beauty of the natural world around us, to make observations in an environment, or trying to open people’s minds to philosophical ideas about our own connection to nature and beyond. Look into her art pieces, they are not only recreating the natural world, but also experiments creating new ways in which to see it in another light.

Ceramic materials are honest, sometimes they don’t want to become those shapes we designed, it feels like they have their own language. The making process for her is about trying to understand it. Also to imitate the patterns and toughness of nature, in order to reconstruct the portrayal of nature in emotional memories and create emotional bonds.

In her art expression she is using a wide black and white colour. Dark and light, fears and hope, she build up the concept in her works about those relationship is tightly dependent and affect each other. The complex forms are entangled and closely dependent.