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Artist Profile - Jacob Chan
Jacob Chan
My work with Oxidising St Thomas 150-1102 is heavily based around my cultural background and heritage. Being half Chinese and half English my ceramics take inspiration from traditional Chinese shapes and forms, whilst the surfaces are heavily decorated in slips and oxides that contain other raw materials such as sand, slate and broken pottery collected from around the coastlines and mountain ranges of Britain. I use these materials to represent my Western culture and my cultural journey through my creativity.
Jacob (who studied at Carmarthen School of Art) was the winner of the Student Award at Art in Clay in 2017, sponsored by Potclays. He received a funded stand at the 2018 Art in Clay.
Jacob was a finalist in Series 3 of the Great Pottery Throw Down.
