Jilin Wang

About

Jilin Wang is a ceramic artist specializing in hand-built sculptural forms. She completed her MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2025, after earning her BA in Ceramic Design from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2023. Originally from China, she now works between China and London, actively engaging in cross-cultural exhibitions and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Her practice is grounded in an ongoing exploration of impermanence, decay, and the quiet rhythms of nature. Informed by Eastern philosophy and personal experience, her work reflects on the delicate processes of growth, fragility, and transformation.

Jilin primarily works with mixed clay bodies—such as white stoneware and dark grogged clay—to create subtle gradients and textures that echo the slow withering of organic matter. Withered leaves, flowers, and skeletal forms are often interwoven, forming a micro-ecology that points to death, remnants, and the deeper currents of time. Rather than depicting flowers in full bloom, she focuses on overlooked states of disintegration, fragmentation, and stillness—stages that also hold vitality and meaning.

In her sculptures, form is not solely shaped by the artist’s hands—it is also influenced by time, fire, and accident. Wang invites viewers to pause and witness these quiet transformations without judgment, embracing the slow and unpredictable unfolding of change.

Her practice is tactile, process-driven, and emotionally resonant, intertwining material exploration with inner transformation. She is also interested in how ceramics can extend beyond the gallery into spaces of healing, collaboration, and storytelling—always returning to the simple yet profound experience of being present.

Email: wangjilin230@163.com