Founder and Creative Director of House Editions
Claudia Lau is a ceramist and the creative director of House Editions. Her practice spans the disciplines of art, design and production, materialising through a spectrum of functional and domestic objects to abstract sculpture, interiors and installation. Her practice and production studio, House Editions, is grounded in process and methodology at each stage of production, providing an opportunity for exploration, experimentation and refinement.
Inverting conventional ceramic approaches, her work involves an expanded approach to surface through glaze, embodying material histories, surface and atmosphere. With knowledge of material chemistry, her practice centres on the transformative nature of materials and the potential of ceramic glaze. Her work investigates how embodied material histories in glaze can act as both material and conceptual element.
Since establishing House Editions in Jingdezhen, China, she has been working and living between her Melbourne base and the historic centre of porcelain.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Layers to the Surface, C. Gallery
2022
A road that runs along the earth, C. Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + FAIRS
2025
Rigg Design Prize: 35 Under 35, National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney Contemporary
Low Key | Melbourne Design Week, Fiona Lynch Studio
2024
Pets, Craft Victoria
2023
Melbourne Design Fair
Spring Equinox, C. Gallery
Flora, C. Gallery
2022
Sydney Contemporary
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
2024
Saint Peters, Sydney
2023
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
Designer Talk : Danielle Brutsman + Claudia Lau, National Gallery of Victoria
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
The National Gallery of Victoria unveils Rigg Design Prize finalists for 2025
VOGUE Living, Women in Design, 2023
Melbourne Milieu: The Art in Hospitality 2023
Australian Ceramics, Form and Surface, 2022
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Layers to the Surface, C. Gallery
2022
A road that runs along the earth, C. Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + FAIRS
2025
Rigg Design Prize: 35 Under 35, National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney Contemporary
Low Key | Melbourne Design Week, Fiona Lynch Studio
2024
Pets, Craft Victoria
2023
Melbourne Design Fair
Spring Equinox, C. Gallery
Flora, C. Gallery
2022
Sydney Contemporary
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
2024
Saint Peters, Sydney
2023
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
Designer Talk : Danielle Brutsman + Claudia Lau, National Gallery of Victoria
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
The National Gallery of Victoria unveils Rigg Design Prize finalists for 2025
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