Siu Yu Hang
Yu Hang's acute observation enables him to create ceramic figures, architecture and animals down to their minute details. He is known for his exact grasp of proportions and shapes, photographic memory, and passion for challenges.
He has served as an assistant tutor at 100 sessions of the workshop series sponsored by the Labour and Welfare Bureau Hong Kong, teaching basic ceramic skills to students, women, the elderly, children, and people in rehabilitation.
Since 2008
Favourite things: Historical architecture, figurine
Specialised in:
Workshop teaching, exhibition guide, speech and seminar, ceramic demonstration, tailor-made works
Subject: Figurine, professional figurine, architectual structure, throwing and underglaze
Exhibition:
2009 | Clay Gives Characters Pottery Gives Joy |
2010 | The City Germinates |
2012 | Clayfunland Harbour City, Hong Kong |
Lantern Luminos | |
2013 | The Various Walks of Life St. James’ Creation Gallery, Hong Kong |
Outdoor Ceramic Sculpture | |
2014 | Being II |
Clay Story |
2015 | Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2015 Icheon, South Korea |
2016 | The Wind Blows From Shigaraki |
Of this World Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong Art Brut Exhibition New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum ,Taiwan | |
2018 | Echigo-tsumari Art Field - Gift from Land Tsunan-machi Nakauonuma-gun, Niigata, Japan |
2019 | Gift from Land X Gift from Earth |
Our Stories – Memories in Clay | |
Design Inspire |
Project:
2009 | Workshops series by Labour and Welfare Bureau Hong Kong |
2012 | Library Etiquette, Central Library Hong Kong |
Coperate Collaboration:
2012 | LOVERAMICS Hong Kong |
Award:
2015 |
Award of Appreciation – Social welfare organization Korea Rehabilitation Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale |
The Back Story
Mid-autumn festivals are especially tense times for Yu Hang, for he would join the dragon boat race every year, and his team would make haste to practice as the race draws near.
Before the mid-autumn festival in 2013, Yu Hang gave himself a new challenge to document scenes of himself and his teammates at the race through clay. However, time was short, and as Yu Hang grew desperate, he rushed through the estimations. The dragon boat broke during the firing. A disappointment it sure was, but so was it a precious lesson for Yu Hang.
The dragon boat was constantly on his mind. Came the second year of the mid-autumn festival, Yu Hang brought up the challenge again but two months earlier this time. This time, he made elaborate plans, and, building upon the experience last time, attained a firmer grasp of the dampness (need to verify term?) of the clay boat and the thickness of the slabs. In anxious anticipation, he waited during the firing. At last, the work was a success, completed in time for the festival. He named it - Paddling the Dragon Boat.
The work was subsequently exhibited at the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale. It was Yu Hang's first set of artwork to be exhibited overseas.
Then came 2017, when Yu Hang learned that his work was to be exhibited at the Echigo-tsumari Art Field exhibition. At once, he added sea waves to the dragon boat work; Taking reference from the different shapes and forms of waves, he created different kinds of waves and injected this new element to his work. In 2018, the work was displayed at the Echigo Tsumari Cultural Hall, Tokamachi, Japan, during which Yu Hang's family made the trip over to visit the work and support him.
"Paddling the Dragon Boat" was exhibited at the followings,
2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Korea
2018 Echigo-tsumari Art Field - Gift from Land, Japan
2019 Gift from Land X Gift from Earth, Hong Kong
2019 Design Inspire, Hong Kong
The work My Father Is a Chef is Yu Hang's record of the scene of his chef father cooking for the family's reunion dinner. At the mention of the work during an interview with Yu Hang's father, it was revealed that Yu Hang does not talk to his father often, but in his mind, his father was an incredible figure, capable of creating many elaborate, masterful dishes all by himself to craft an extraordinary dinner. Everything that his father did Yu Hang remembered by heart, and with clay and words, he re-enacted the reunion dinner, all the while smiling in blissful recollection. When his father learned of the work to be exhibited, he brought a camera over to photograph it.
Art transcends barriers. The father and the son saw each other with renewed appreciation, and as they looked at each other, nothing was left unsaid.
They were proud of each other from the bottom of their hearts - we are both Masters Siu.
Ceramic Works
PADDLING THE DRAGON BOAT
2013
Stoneware
51cm x 19cm x 11cm
Yeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2015
Echigo-tsumari Art Field 2018
MR. & MRS. FARMER
2018
Stoneware
(Mr.) 12cm x 13cm x 18cm
(Mrs.) 14cm x 15cm x 21cm
Echigo-tsumari Art Field 2018
DIGGING WORKER
2011
Stoneware
12cm x 12cm x 20cm
SWEEPING WORKER
2011
Stoneware
12cm x 10cm x 20cm
MY FATHER IS A CHEF
2013
Stoneware
27cm x 22cm x 28cm
WEDGING BOARDS IN CLAY
2016
Stoneware
19cm x 18cm x 24cm
THROWING
2016
Stoneware
28cm x 18cm x 26cm
ACCOUNTANT
2016
Stoneware
25cm x 20cm x 22cm
CLEANER and Trolley
2018
Stoneware
25cm x 15cm x 18cm
Tram and Fleming Road Tram Station
2019
Stoneware
17cm x 17cm x 12cm
THROWING
2016
Stoneware
12cm x 12cm x 10cm
SEED SERIES
2018
Stoneware