London, United Kingdom
Collection: HELENA LACY
Helena Lacy is a London-based ceramic artist working across sculpture and sculptural furniture. Her practice explores material transformation, home, memory and storytelling, with pattern playing a central role. Inspired by patterns formed through natural movement and those embedded in print, she uses experimental glazing and printing techniques to balance structure with unpredictability. An ongoing influence in her work is an interest in found objects and ceramic fragments, understood as traces of lived experience carrying layered stories of ownership and place, which inform her approach to surface and pattern.
Helena Lacy is a London-based ceramic artist working across sculpture and sculptural furniture, Her practice explores material transformation, print, memory, and storytelling. She holds an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art (2024) and a BA (Hons) in Technical Arts and Special Effects from Wimbledon College of Art (2014). Her work has been exhibited at Collect Art Fair, New Designers Selects, Caroline Fisher Projects, Selfridges, Mint Gallery, Thrown Gallery, London Craft Week, London Design Festival and Paris Design Week. A finalist in the Liberty Open Call, Lacy has completed residencies in Japan, Germany and Finland and was awarded Artist in Residence at the Sarabande Foundation (2024–2025). Her work has been featured in Homes and Gardens, Livingetc, Colour Hive, TheWick, Emerging Potters, Apollo, Architectural Digest, ShowStudio and A2Z Fashion Magazine.
Education
2023–2024
Royal College of Art – MA Ceramics and Glass
2011–2014
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL – BA (Hons) Technical Arts and Special Effects
Residencies
2026
MenLo, Jingdezhen, China
2024 - 2025
Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2023
Zentrum Fur Keramik, Berlin, Germany
Shiro Oni Studio, Onishi, Japan
2022
AARK, Korpo, Finland
Exhibitions
2026
Immaculate Object, The Future Perfect, New York
House Of Bandits, Selfridges, London
Shifting Skies, Thrown Gallery, Cornwall, UK
MenLo Exhibition, Jingdezhen, China
Ceramic Panic, Gertrude
FiredUp4 Secret Ceramics, London Craft Week, Sotheby’s, London
The Garden Comes Inside, Caroline Fisher Projects, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, UK
Porcelain Reconsidered, Vessels + Sticks Gallery, Toronto
Collect Art Fair with House of Bandits, Sarabande Foundation, Somerset House, London
Collect Art Fair with Caroline Fisher Projects. Somerset House, London
2025
House of Bandits at Roche Bobois, London
Sincerely, Summer Show, Sarabande Foundation, London
New Designers Selects, New Designers, Art Fair, London
Object Narrative, London Craft Week, Sarabande Foundation, London
Salon Show 3, Caroline Fisher Projects, London
Homesick, IWD, Sarabande Foundation, London
House Of Bandits, Selfridges, London
Female Artists of Tomorrow show at The Hari, A Space for Art, London
2024
The Dance Of Shadow And Light On Stone, The Graduate Gallery, London
The Graduate Art Show, Woolff Gallery, London
Boundless, Mint Gallery, London Design Festival, London
Murmurations by Preston Fitzgerald, Avenue Studios, London
Uneasy In The Frame, Safehouse 1, London
Royal College of Art Public Showcase, London
Everflowing Encounter, Royal College of Art, London
2023
Hubbub, Bermondsey Project Space, London
ArtGround, Meet Me On The First Floor, London
Peckham Craft Show, AMP Gallery, London
Trinity Art Gallery Summer Show, London
Shiro Oni Residency Exhibition, Kanezawa Park, Onishi, Japan
The Creative World of London, 3To8 Vintage Apartment Store, Tokyo
Narchie x The Cirkel, London
Craft Show Spring, Louise House Laundry, London
2022
Unfamiliar Forms, London Design Festival, London
The Interiors, Narchie & L’absurde, Margate, UK
Inside the Mind, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2021
Glass Cloud Gallery, London Design Festival, London
Thrown Winter Exhibition, Thrown Gallery, London
2020
Made To Be Loved, London
Thrown Winter Exhibition, Thrown Gallery, London
2019
A Ceramics Pop-up, London Studio Ceramics, London
Peckham Craft Show, London Craft Week, Copeland Gallery, London
2018
1000 Vases, Paris Design Week, Espace Commines, Paris
Sisterhood Corner, Malamarket, Madrid
Peckham Festival, The Arches Studios, London
Meet The Maker, Wolf & Badger, New York
Peckham Craft Weekend, London Craft Week, Copeland Gallery, London
Liberty Open Call, Finalist, Liberty, London
Flock Pop-up, Peckham Levels, London
2017
Keramos, PRICK Ldn, London Design Festival, London
A Living Gallery, Ugly Duck, London
Peckham Craft Weekend, London Craft Week, Copeland Gallery, London
Ensemble Pop-up, London
2016
Curator of Copeland Collective, Art Licks Weekend, London
Fleeting Affiliations, London
River Waveney Sculpture Trail, Norfolk, UK
HOTDESK Exhibition, 1a Nevern Place, London
CHROMA: Black & White issue, Crypt Gallery, London
CHROMA: Blue issue, Safehouse 2, London
Project Pygmalion, Ugly Duck, London
Oxford International Art Fair, Oxford, UK
2015
Twelve Exhibition, Mother Studio Gallery, London
Chelsea Fringe Festival, Copeland Park, London
Art Auction: Disaster Relief for Nepal, London
Signature Art Prize, London
2014
Float Art Exhibition, Barge House OXO Tower, London
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