HELENA LACY

Re-print (3 Pieces)

$1,225.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

The 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.

I 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. 

I 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.

Dimensions: 6.3"H - 3.5"H x 2.4"W x 2.4"D

Material: Porcelain

Artwork ships: June 22, 2026 (after exhibition closes)

Re-print (3 Pieces)

Helena Lacy, 2025
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Artist Statement

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.

These ideas are central to Re-print, a series examining how ceramic surfaces preserve and obscure storytelling. 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. Using a glaze-printing method developed during her MA at the Royal College of Art, Lacy layers and reinterprets classical blue and white porcelain imagery, allowing familiar motifs to fragment and overlap, reflecting how stories are remembered and retold, and the longstanding quiet power of material storytelling.

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About the Artist

Helena Lacy (b. 1991) 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.

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