Xinyi Zhang

Visual Art, Photography, Craft · Emerging · Aukland, NZ

Xinyi is interested in making small everyday object which brings up memory from childhood and nature. She is mostly engaged with handbuilding, and transforming the throwed pieces with hands. In her practice, she likes the idea of using intuition and have a sense of freedom to bring out the chi (energy) which in lines with natural rhythm. The other side of her work which is still in progress which is more scupture, bigger pieces. The most recent work is when she studied at the woodfired pottery school in new lynn, auckland where she created a vessel which is open formed using local clay, and left them unfired and integrate into nature again. She is exploring the how seemingly contridictory concepts can be one, in this project, about permanence, and impermanence, as the clay returns nature to be a permanant part, but the labor on the clay is no more visible. She used to do more still-life photography, but now she takes photography more for documenting and interacting with her ceramics pieces.