Gailan Ngan (Canadian b. 1971)
Asymmetrical stoneware bowl with brown glossy glaze (possibly Tenmoku glaze) to exterior and brown gloss glaze dripping over green mattified glaze interior
Size: 6 h x 13.25 w x 12.5 d in
Born on Hornby Island, B.C., Gailan Ngan graduated from Emily Carr University in 2002. Her practice includes pottery and sculpture working with slips and clays sourced both commercially and gathered from nature. She is known for her ceramic forms with a singular contour line, fusing layers of accumulated textures and colors and researching glazes made from rare earth metals. She works out of her Vancouver studio as well as her late father Wayne Ngan’s studio on Hornby Island.
Gailan has been shown at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Cooper Cole, The Apartment, San Diego Institute, Centre A, Western Front, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, the Museum of Anthropology, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Monte Clark Gallery. She is represented in numerous collections including the Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery at UBC. She won the North West Ceramic Foundation Award in 2015.
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