YUK-KAN YEUNG

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AKA: Yuk-Kan Yeung

Born: 1959 Hong Kong

• Abstract
• Ceramics
• Contemporary
• Established

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Lives and works in The Netherlands
Represented in Australia by Uber Gallery

"Creating ceramics is like writing poetry. My love for literature, poetry and drawing are combined and integrated in my ceramic works. I choose to work with porcelain for its purity and plasticity. I understand my art as a ‘gentle push, a gentle touch, the vessels capture the movement and poetry takes shape in clay’. On this simple vessel form, I emphasise my abstract drawings and paintings. I often rely on tuition to make a mark on the soft clay surface, every line and space are a search within, a composition of poetry, a magical transformation of human emotion." - Yuk-Kan Yeung

Vessel in yellow & grey

EDUCATION

1987 Postgraduate Diploma in Ceramics Goldsmiths College London
1981 Bachelor of Fine Arts Chinese University of Hong Kong

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 Über Gallery Melbourne, Australia
2004 Tongerlohuys Roosendaal, Netherlands
2003 St. Joseph Galerie Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2003 Loes & Reinier Deventer, Netherlands
2002 De Bewaerschole Haamstede, Netherlands
1998 Kunstuitleen West-Friesland Hoorn, Netherlands
1998 The Pottery Workshop Hong Kong
1995 Galerie Grafiker Haarlem, Netherlands
1992 TB Galerie Etten-Leur, Netherlands
1989 The Pottery Workshop Hong Kong
1988 Galerie Art East Art West Hamburg, Germany
1986 The Pottery Workshop Hong Kong

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 23 Concurs Internacional de Ceramica L’Alcora Spain
2003 City of Carouge prize 2003, International Ceramics Competition Musee de Carouge, Switzerland
2002 St. Joseph Galerie Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2002 The Stour Gallery Shipston-on-Stour, UK
2002 Falmouth Arts Centre Falmouth, UK
2001 Laburnum Ceramics Gallery Yanwath, UK
2001 6e Triennale Internationale Porcelaine Contemporaine Nyon, Switzerland
1999 Keramuze 1999 Bilthoven, Netherlands
1999 Europaische Keramik 1999 Westerwaldpreis Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany
1998 Galerie ‘BRAK’ Voorburg, Netherlands
1997 Galerie Inkt Delft Delft, Netherlands
1996 International Orton Cone Box Show Baker University, Kansas, USA
1994 International Orton Cone Box Show Baker University, Kansas, USA
1987 Clay IV Ceramics Exhibition Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong
1986 Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong
1986 Clay III Ceramics Exhibition Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong
1985 Hong Kong Pottery Today Fung Ping Shan Museum
Hong Kong
1984 Clay II Ceramics Exhibition Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong

NOMINATIONS

2003 23 Concurs Internacional de Ceramica L’Alcora 2003, Spain (honorable mention)
2003 City of Carouge Prize, International Ceramics Competition Musee de Carouge, Switzerland
2001 6e Triennale Internationale Porcelaine Contemporaine Competitie Nyon, Switzerland
1999 Westerwaldpreis Competitie Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany
1996 International Orton Cone Box Show Baker University Kansas, USA
1994 International Orton Cone Box Show Baker University Kansas, USA

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

2002 International Workshop, Falmouth College of Art, Falmouth UK

GALLERIES

Über Gallery Melbourne, Australia
St. Joseph Galerie Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Gallery European Makers Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rufford Craft Centre Ollerton UK
The Stour Gallery Shipston-on-Stour, UK
Galerie De Verbeelding Baarle-Hertog/Nassau, Belgium

COLLECTIONS

The Hong Kong Museum of Art
Falmouth College of Art
Private Collections (Europe, Hong Kong and Australia)

PUBLICATIONS

Porcelain Jack Doherty, A&C Black, London: 2002

MEDIA

Away from Home Ceramic Review (Feb 2003)
Poezie in Porselein Keramiek VNK (Feb 2002)