Ing-Lu Lucinda Chen

Lucinda graduated with honours from Ontario College of Art & Design in 2001, where she was a multiple printmaking award winner. Lucinda was a recent recipient of the Don Phillips Scholarship from Open Studio in Toronto where she will be working for the next year.
Lucinda's focus falls on two different disciplines: printmaking and ceramics. Although they may seem unrelated, she has found a way to apply ink to clay and to print onto paper from it's surface.
Another hybridizing technique she used in this collection is "chine colle" a paper lamination process which permanently layers two sheets of paper with a printed image on top. Both sheets are clearly visible, yet they have ceased to be separate elements. The print has unified them in a single work of art. In a way this reflects the cultural journey she has experienced, moving to Canada from her homeland of Taiwan five years ago.
Her ceramics pieces do not serve the purpose of functional pottery. Instead, the organic feel of her works invites you travel inward. The poem she wrote speaks the best:


When I lay my hands onto clay,
I become invisible.

The rhythm of clay leads me
to stretch, to compress,
to unfold, to enclose,
and to sparkle.

Clay dances with me.

The world we live in is diverse. So is her art.

 

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