about
about
Eugene Hon is a ceramic artist with a passion for visual art drawing. His detailed ballpoint pen renderings are scanned and digitally enhanced as digitally printed ceramic transfers applied to ceramics in boundary-breaking ways. And or as animated digital projections onto ceramic installations - narrowing the gap traditional ceramics and digital materialities.
From a young age Hon expressed a keen interest in textile design, one of his subjects at school. With a Masters degree in ceramic sculpture, from the University of Cape Town (1986), he has pursued a career as an academic and a practice led ceramist for 38 years. His experience as an academic and commitment to the development of the crafts (co-founder of the SA Crafts Council), has expanded his knowledge and honed his skills in the making of cutting edge ceramics in a digital age. Focussing on the significance of the crafts as a liberated tool in celebrating surface decoration both stylistically and conceptually.
Hon gained international recognition for his ceramic statements, when his first animated projection titled, ….and the ship sails on… formed part of the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale. And again in July 2018, when his cover article in Ceramics Technical, explicated his ceramic endeavours titled, Ceramics and Drawing: Pioneering Digital Solutions.
EXHIBITIONS
most recent
2020
Solo Exhibition titled, Manufactured Distractions and Intersections, Creative Output Exhibition held at the FADA gallery. University of Johannesburg. South Africa.
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2021
Solo Exhibition titled, Windstruck I & II. Creative Output Exhibition at FADA gallery, University of Johannesburg. South Africa.
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2022
Solo Exhibition titled Fragmented Fragments and Fractals: Body of Ceramic Shards and an Animated Projection of my ballpoint pen Drawings, projected onto an upscaled Shard. Creative Output Exhibition at FADA Gallery. University of Johannesburg. South Africa.
2024
New Body of work Titled, Curious Entanglements - Finalist at the First Ever Clay Awards in South Africa. Work featured in a review of the first ever Clay Awards Exhibition, held at the Clay Museum (SA), titled, Finding a South African Voice, written by Ann Marais and published in Ceramics Now, Feb 2025.
Ceramics SA, National Ceramics Biennale 2025 BIGS, Awards Judge and Exhibitor. November.
2025
Work titled, Curious Entanglements, Lichen produced as Artist in Residence at Jingdezhen Artist Residence China. May-June. Group Exhibition, Borders in Flux, at the Qiumo Art Gallery, Taoxichuan Spring Art Fair. China. June.
Kaleidoscopes 25, Group Exhibition (Guest Exhibitor), Association of Arts, Pretoria. South Africa. September
A new body of work titled, Ashes to Ashes, exhibited at Ceramics Southern Africa, Gauteng Regional Exhibition, UJ Art Gallery. October.
