Studio Residency artist Jack Ky Tan gives visitors the unique opportunity to see works in progress made whilst in residence at Camden Art Centre.
Tan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Galloway Southwest Scotland. During his residency his research has been focused on the legacies of British colonialism in Southeast Asia with a particular interest in the use of nostalgia within stories, objects, memories, language and literature to create the English-enculturated colonial native. By recreating in ceramics fond and beloved objects from his upbringing and applying funerary ‘Sancai’ glazing techniques from the Tang Dynasty onto these, Tan’s new body of work has been considering ideas of mourning, innocence and experience, the colonial imagination and belonging.
