About
Helena Lacy is a London-based ceramic artist working across sculpture and sculptural furniture. Her practice explores material transformation, home, memory, and storytelling, with pattern playing a central role. Inspired by patterns formed through natural movement and those embedded in print, she uses experimental glazing and printing techniques to balance structure with unpredictability. An ongoing influence in her work is an interest in found objects and ceramic fragments, understood as traces of lived experience carrying layered stories of ownership, place, and imagery. This informs her approach to pattern, distortion, and meaning.
These ideas are central to Re-print, a series examining how ceramic surfaces preserve and obscure storytelling. Originating from observations of image distortion in water reflections, understood as a form of living, unstable print, the work translates fluid imagery into fixed ceramic forms. Using a glaze-printing method she developed, Lacy layers, repeats, and distorts imagery, allowing familiar motifs to fragment and overlap. Reflecting on how stories are remembered and retold, and the quiet power of material storytelling.
