Nhan-Nhi lillian Nguyen
Design: Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery MA
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Ceramics / Architecture /
Location: London, United Kingdom
Nhan-Nhi lillian Nguyen
First Name: Nhan-Nhi lillian
Last Name: Nguyen
Specialisms: Ceramics / Architecture
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Design: Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery MA
About
Nhan-Nhi Lillian Nguyen (b. 1996, Honolulu) is a spatial designer whose work in ceramics is heavily influenced by her undergraduate studies in architecture. She is primarily interested in the boundaries and potentials of craft in the digital age, which she has manifested as a playful enquiry into how human touch and error can intervene in machine processes.
Exploring the intersection between the machine-made and hand-made, and the relationship between the digital and the analogue, Nguyen is interested in reconnecting design with human touch at a time where the distance between these is often assumed to be expanding under the weight of technological progress.
She received her Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Southern California in 2020 and Masters of Design from Central Saint Martins in 2023.
NNN is a human printer orchestrating the use of the following machinery: 3d ceramic printer, computer, handheld extruder, mixer, and human hand. The following collection is a series of 3d ceramic and human printed parian porcelain vessels that are colored with oxide stains. Exploring the intersection between machine-made and hand-made; the relationship between digital and the analogue, NNN is interested in reconnecting design with human touch. Nguyen inserts herself into the printing script by weaving coiled clay into the vessels while they are printing. Intervening in the ceramic 3d-printing process, creates opportunities for intentional disruption, structure change and beautiful accidents. No two prints are ever identical. Celebrating organic man-made error and the presence of humanity into the man-made machine the resulting works offer richly textured surfaces and unfamiliar volumes.
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