Helena Lacy’s Re-print is an ongoing series of sculpture and sculptural furniture that examines how ceramic surfaces can preserve and obscure storytelling. Drawn to blue and white porcelain as one of the most recognisable traditions of print within ceramics, and to its long history of visual storytelling, Lacy has 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 unpredictability and reflecting how stories are remembered and retold through the longstanding power of material storytelling.
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