Helena Lacy

Helena Lacy is a London-based ceramic artist who creates sculptures and one-of-a-kind furniture pieces. Her work is driven by a deep curiosity for how materials interact and transform, particularly in ways that replicate natural patterns. Her practice reflects a balance between structure and unpredictability, exploring the contrast between flow and form. Fascinated by natural movements and distortions, Lacy experiments with glazing and print techniques that mimic the flows of water, lava, and other elements in nature, using the kiln as a second conductor to balance control and spontaneity.

Photo credit @sarabandefoundation

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Helena Lacy CV

Education
2024, Ceramics & Glass MA students at the Royal College of Art
BA Technical Arts and Special Effects at Wimbledon College of Art

Exhibitions

2024
The Graduate Art Show at Woolff Gallery - London, UK - November to December 
Boundless presented by Mint Gallery - LDF - London, UK - September 2024
Murmurations presented by Preston Fitzgerald - Avenue Studios - London, UK 
Uneasy In The Frame - Royal College of Art Show - Safehouse 1 - London, UK 
Royal College of Art Public Showcase - London, UK
Everflowing Encounter - Royal College of Art - London, UK

2023
Hubbub - Bermondsey Project Space - London, UK
ArtGround - Meet Me On The First Floor - London, UK 
Peckham Craft Show - AMP Gallery, London, UK 
Trinity Art Gallery Summer Show - London, UK 
Shiro Oni Residency Exhibition - Kanezawa Park - Onishi, Japan 
The Creative World of London - 3To8 Vintage Apartment Store - Tokyo, Japan 
Narchie x The Cirkel - London, UK 
Craft Show Spring - Louise House Laundry - London, UK

2022
Unfamiliar Forms - London Design Festival - London, UK 
The Interiors - Narchie & L’absurde - Margate, UK
Inside the Mind - Trinity Art Gallery - London, UK

2021
Thrown Winter Exhibition - Thrown Gallery - London, UK 
Glass Cloud Gallery - London Design Festival - London, UK 
Thrown Winter Exhibition - Thrown Gallery - London, UK 

2020
Made To Be Loved - London, UK 

2019
A Ceramics Pop-up - London Studio Ceramics - London, UK 
Peckham Craft Show - London, UK 
Peckham Craft Show - London Craft Week - Copeland Gallery - London, UK
The Tu Boob Pop-Up - The Nation’s Knockers - London, UK 

2018
Flock Pop-up - Peckham Levels - London, UK 
Sisterhood Corner - Malamarket - Madrid, Spain
1000 Vases - Paris Design Week - Espace Commines - Paris, France 
Meet The Maker - Wolf & Badger - Soho - New York, USA 
Peckham Craft Weekend - London Craft Week - Copeland Gallery - London, UK 
Liberty Open Call - Finalist - Liberty - London, UK

2017
Ensemble Pop-up - London, UK 
Keramos - PRICK Ldn - London Design Festival - London, UK
A Living Gallery - Ugly Duck - London, UK 
Peckham Craft Weekend - London Craft Week - Copeland Gallery - London, UK 
Curator of Copeland Collective - Art Licks Weekend - London, UK

2016
London Design Festival - Copeland Gallery - London, UK
Fleeting Affiliations - London, UK
River Waveney Sculpture Trail - Norfolk, UK
HOTDESK Exhibition - 1a Nevern Place - London, UK 
CHROMA: Black & White issue - Crypt Gallery - London, UK 
Project Pygmalion - Ugly Duck - London, UK 
CHROMA: Blue issue - Safehouse 2 - London, UK 
Oxford International Art Fair - Oxford, UK

2015
Twelve Exhibition - Mother Studio Gallery - London, UK
Art Auction : Disaster Relief for Nepal - London, UK
Chelsea Fringe Festival - Copeland Park - London, UK 
Signature Art Prize - London, UK 

2014
Float Art Exhibition - Barge House OXO Tower - London, UK 


Residencies
Zentrum Fur Keramik - Berlin, Germany - 2023
Shiro Oni Studio - Onishi, Japan - 2023
AARK - Korpo, Finland - 2022