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Artist Feature 003: 心怡 / Xinyi Zhang. Tāmaki Makaurau-based ceramicist and photographer, Xinyi builds subtle, luminous objects from handbuilt clay, each one a vessel of memory, childhood, and the natural world. Her practice moves between ceramic sculpture and high-quality documentary photography, the two so closely entwined it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins. We discussed clay as a way of touching land, the poetics of permanence and impermanence, and what emerging artists in Aotearoa need more of right now.

Artist Feature 003: 心怡 / Xinyi Zhang. Tāmaki Makaurau-based ceramicist and photographer, Xinyi builds subtle, luminous objects from handbuilt clay, each one a vessel of memory, childhood, and the natural world. Her practice moves between ceramic sculpture and high-quality documentary photography, the two so closely entwined it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins. We discussed clay as a way of touching land, the poetics of permanence and impermanence, and what emerging artists in Aotearoa need more of right now.

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13 May 2026

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