Zhu Ohmu

Zhu Ohmu is a Taiwanese-born artist based between Melbourne and Paris. Her ceramic practice is a response to the rise of 3D-printed ceramics, exploring what it means to mimic machine-made forms with the human hand. Using a self-developed coiling technique, she builds vessels through stacking, folding, pressing, and pulling — gestures that are dictated by the weight and movement of moist clay.

Her forms emerge intuitively, often pushed to their structural limits, and honor the intimacy of hand-building in an age of automation. Her process embraces imperfection and unpredictability, drawing on the philosophies of wabi-sabi and kintsukuroi.