Joanne Yau

Bio

Joanne Yau is an architect, woodworker, and ceramic artist. She approaches design as a vessel for everyday rituals — a framework for presence, movement, and being. Her work is attuned to how we inhabit space, how objects live with us, and how stillness can hold meaning. Her work seeks that numinous threshold between the material and the ineffable — where form meets feeling, and presence meets place.

Artist Statement

This series features tiny rock formations cresting along the surface of each lid. These miniature mountains suggest a distant landscape—a place from another time or memory. Each lid defines a unique spatial relationship within the hollow of the bowl: sometimes sealing it entirely, other times allowing a glimpse inside, or simply resting as an airy covering. Wood ash and porcelain soften the boundaries between where the clay body emerges and the glaze recedes.

Exhibitions