Celestial Thread: A Tapestry of Sunshine w/ Jino Jeong: December 1st, 2023

The winner of the 2023 Portage Ceramics awards has recently been announced as Jino Jeong, for his work Celestial Thread: A Tapestry of Sunshine and Spiderwebs.

Jino is a Tāmaki Makaurau based ceramicist, who was born in Seoul and studied ceramics at Kyonggi University in South Korea.

The pieces in Celestial Thread were praised for their meticulously crafted forms defining volume through lines in space. 

Frances had a chat to Jino to learn more about his entry.