{"title":"HELENA LACY","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelena 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"#about\"\u003eBiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"#cv\"\u003eArtist CV\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"re-print-3-pieces","title":"Re-print (3 Pieces)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Re-print columns are a set of three sculptures with printed glaze draped across their surface. It forms part of Re-print, an ongoing series that examines how ceramic surfaces can preserve and obscure storytelling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eI am drawn to Porcelain for its strong historical association with blue and white surface decoration, one of the most recognizable forms of ceramic storytelling. Its smooth surface supports printed imagery, while its unpredictability in the kiln allows glaze to shift and distort, reflecting my interest in changing narratives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI developed a glaze-printing technique that allows imagery to be layered and reinterpreted directly onto the ceramic surface. Originating from observations of image distortion in water reflections, understood as a form of living, unstable print, the work translates fluid imagery into fixed ceramic forms. Through repetition and firing, the printed glaze shifts and distorts in response to heat, allowing familiar motifs to fragment and overlap. The kiln becomes a collaborator in this process, introducing movement and unpredictability, and reflecting how stories are remembered and retold through the longstanding quiet power of material storytelling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HELENA LACY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52869886345525,"sku":null,"price":1225.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/5798\/8661\/files\/DSC00061_4500x3000_under2MB.jpg?v=1787689563"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/5798\/8661\/collections\/Sarabande_Artist_Portrait_-_Helena_Lacy_2025.jpg?v=1793998734","url":"https:\/\/vesselsandsticks.com\/collections\/helena-lacy.oembed","provider":"Vessels + Sticks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}