2025 participant Evident Talent '25 at Terra Delft
Artist name XiaoCao, real name Ding Weiran. Born in 1988, Nanjing, China.
Education: 2006-2013, she studied ceramic art in the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University in Beijing China and got bachelor's and master's degrees. Since 2015, she has been working in studio in Jingdezhen China.
Inspiration:
The process of making ceramics is similar to the melting matter at the center of the earth’s core, that has been happening over the course of billions of years, eventually cooling down to form the rocky earth. When facing, mountains, rivers, forests, and oceans, humans are moved by the immense beauty of natural creation. I use clay as I would paper, the glazes coloring my vision of the natural landscape, to try to give ceramics a sense of nature and life. I use elements such as decal paper, molded patterns and text to represent the addition of human civilization, hoping to integrate humans with nature in a harmonious way.
