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Helena Lacy (b. 1991) is a London-based ceramic artist working across sculpture and sculptural furniture. Her practice explores material transformation, home, memory, and storytelling.

Pattern plays a central role in her work, informed both by those shaped through natural movement and those embedded in print. Lacy balances structure with unpredictability through experimental glazing and printing techniques.

Re-print is a series exploring how ceramic surfaces preserve and obscure storytelling. The work originated from observing image distortion in water reflections, where patterns momentarily emerged within constant movement. These reflections were understood as a form of living print, unstable and continuously rewritten and became a starting point for translating fluid images into fixed ceramic forms.

Using a glaze-printing method developed during her MA at the Royal College of Art, Lacy layers and reinterprets classical blue and white porcelain imagery — one of the most recognisable and historically repeated print traditions in ceramics. By bringing these codified patterns into dialogue with unstable, distorted source images, the work questions how visual histories are retold, remembered and transformed over time.

The work reflects her interest in hidden narratives and how memory and place are embedded in objects. Through a tension between flow and form — created by repetition and fluid movement in the kiln, the series invites reflection on memory and the quiet power of material storytelling.

Lacy holds an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art (2024) and a BA (Hons) in Technical Arts and Special Effects from Wimbledon College of Art (2014). Her work has been exhibited at New Designers Selects, Caroline Fisher Projects, Selfridges, Mint Gallery, Thrown Gallery, London Craft Week, London Design Festival, and Paris Design Week. A finalist in the Liberty Open Call, she has completed residencies in Japan, Germany, and Finland, and was awarded Artist in Residence at the Sarabande Foundation (2024–2025). Her work has been featured in Colour Hive, The Wick, Emerging Potters, Apollo, Architectural Digest, ShowStudio, and A2Z Fashion Magazine. She will present her first solo exhibition in 2026 and exhibit with Caroline Fisher Projects and House Of Bandits at Collect Art Fair.

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