FOREWORD

Hosting the On Earth Ceramics Festival in the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), besides benefiting from the venue and facility supports, the helpful cooperation of the staff; more importantly, in this arts centre there has nurtured artists across different creative mediums over the past decade and ceramic art is one these mediums. I am a ceramist and have been stationed at JCCAC for nine years. I have witnessed the continuous growth and progress of the ceramists here, promoting ceramic art and education, while they are not limited to working only in the studio, but also active in participating in local and overseas art exhibitions and outreach art programmes.

This year, as the founder of Unit Gallery, I am honoured to have the opportunity to collaborate with JCCAC in organizing the themed exhibition of its annual art festival. One of the events is to invite the ceramists here to hold a studio-open cum exhibition, with either ceramics as the creative medium or this year’s theme “on earth” and “nature” as the topic, to create and showcase their works or other artists’ works in their studios, so as to communicate with the audience and continue to promote art. Another highlight of the event is the participation of some non-ceramic artists from the Centre. They are also interested in the topic of “on earth” and explored “nature” with ceramic or non-ceramic materials.

Rachel Cheung

Curator of On Earth Ceramics Festival