About

After first apprenticing with her father, renowned West Coast ceramist Wayne Ngan, Gailan subsequently studied sculpture at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. Since that time Gailan Ngan's sophisticated studio pottery practice grew beyond vessels towards a deeper understanding of form and its contents. Based in the technical demands of the ceramic medium, her work plays at the limits of throwing, coiling and massing clay to compose sculpted forms rich with emotive volume and humor. Her experimental approach to glazes coats, cradles and collapses onto these forms, bringing …