CLAUDIA LAU





Selected Works 2022 - 2024

Index 1

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Index 1, Detail

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Index Study 1

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Index Study 2

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Index 2

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Index 2, Detail

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 2

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 3

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 4

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 5

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 6

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 1

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 7

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 7

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 9

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 8

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 10

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 12

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 11

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 15

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 16

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 13

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 14

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 17

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 18

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Shifting Stories 19

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Layers to the Surface

2024
Installation View
C. Gallery
Light Books 1-3

2024  
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Light Book 1

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Light Book 2

2024
Layers to the Surface
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 3

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 21

2025
Sydney Contemporary
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 19

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 4

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 22

2025
Sydney Contemporary
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 1

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 8

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 26

2025
Sydney Contemporary
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 13

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 29

2025
Sydney Contemporary
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 18

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 10

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 6

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 9

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 2

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 11

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 28

2025
Sydney Contemporary
C. Gallery
Hidden Structures 5

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 15

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Hidden Structures 7

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Truss 06

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Truss 06

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Truss 01

2022
Sydney Contemporary 
C. Gallery 
Truss 01

2022
Sydney Contemporary 
C. Gallery 
Extrusion 01

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Extrusion 01

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Extrusion 02

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Extrusion 03

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Ash to Ashes

2023
Melbourne Design Fair
C. Gallery 
Bone to Stone

2023
Melbourne Design Fair
C. Gallery 
Water Stone

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Road

2022
A road that runs along the earth
C. Gallery 
Grounding Below

2023
Spring Equinox
C. Gallery 
Blooming Tower

2023 
Flora
C. Gallery
Represented by C. Gallery, Melbourne, AU.
Founder and Creative Director of House Editions



Claudia Lau is a ceramist whose practice is defined by an ongoing investigation into the boundaries of ceramic manipulation. Working across craft production, decorative and applied arts, she explores the transformation of raw materials through a lens of poetic gesture through considered studio methodologies that flex between known and unexpected firing outcomes. Working across several formats and production techniques within the ceramic medium, she upends the conventional notions of ceramic utility and form. 

Her practice and diasporic journey questions the relationships between East and West, tradition and innovation, exoticism and pilgrimage. The idea of investigating and placing these disparate ideas and actions becomes manipulated within the material practice. By coding ‘glazing’ as a deliberate act to control tonal and colour ratios, the firing process destigmatises its rigidity as a technology without conscious choice.

Claudia Lau (b. 1996 in Melbourne) received a Bachelor of Design from RMIT University in 2017. A mixture of production experience, technical and material chemistry and theoretical approaches to a ceramic practice has informed her investigations. After completing her degree, Lau went on to gain experience in production and expand her studies locally and abroad, including formative experiences in Jingdezhen, the historic heart of porcelain. Straddling both experimentation and the refined, she divides her time between her fine art practice and production studio House Editions. A porcelain craft and production studio based in Jingdezhen, CN, based on timelessness, relevance and beauty. This cultural exchange is where she has developed a deeper connection with the tradition of ceramics and experimental production methods. 

Claudia Lau is based between Melbourne AU and Jingdezhen, CN. 





CV

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Layers to the Surface, C. Gallery

2022
A road that runs along the earth, C. Gallery


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + FAIRS

2024
Pets, Craft Victoria

2023
Melbourne Design Fair, C. Gallery
Spring Equinox, C. Gallery
Flora, C. Gallery

2022
Sydney Contemporary, C. Gallery
Melbourne Design Week | Self Portrait, RMIT Design Hub

2021
Melbourne Design Week | Future Proof, Oigall Projects
Melbourne Design Week | The Talking Ornament, Flagstaff Gardens


SELECTED COMMISSIONS

2023
Saint Peters at Edition Hotels, Singapore

2022
Aqua Culture, PARCS Melbourne


EDUCATION + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bachelor of  Communication Design, RMIT University
Studio Program, School of Clay and Art
Material Chemistry, Ceramic Materials Workshop
Glaze Masterclass with Janet De Boos,  Jingdezhen
Flatware Masterclass with Michael Skewes
Glaze Study with Kevin Boyd
Kintsugi with Showzi Tsukamoto, Tokyo, Japan

RESIDENCIES

2024
Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark

2023
Collective Territories + Claudia Lau Studio, Testing Grounds Melbourne


VARIOUS ACTIVITIES + EXPERIENCE

2025
House Editions | House Show, Robin Boyd Foundation

2024
House Editions | Melbourne Design Week | Material Processes with Collective Territories

2022 
Artist Lecture, Craft Victoria

2019 - Present
Founder and Creative Director, House Editions

2017 - 2019
Artist Assistant, Wingnut & Co
Artist Assistant, Leah Jackson 


SELECTED PRESS

VOGUE Living, Women in Design, 2023
Melbourne Milieu: The Art in Hospitality 2023
Australian Ceramics, Form and Surface, 2022

info@claudialau.studio
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Melbourne, AU | Jingdezhen, CN