Gerald Mak

On the other hand, I am overflowing with

emotions (triptych) 99 x 156 cm, each panel 99 x 52 cm (Photography by Marta Fernandez Canut)

Contact: gerald.mak@network.rca. ac.uk

Gerald is an interdisciplinary artist based in London with roots from Hong Kong. He works across drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and writing. He previously studied BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. During his second year at the Royal College of Art, he participated in the RCA China Project Cultural Experience where he spent three months studying and making work in Jingdezhen, China.

He uses carving on porcelain and watercolour to document recent circumstances and personal experiences. These events in the past year have led him to recognise his latent concern over his identity, and notions of otherness and human relationships. On the other hand, I am overflowing with emotions (triptych) is part of a series of carvings created with these concerns in mind.

Collaborating with local factories in Jingdezhen, the triptych comprises three panels,which have a porcelain body, then handrolled, and carved onto.

Gerald is looking to travel back to Jingdezhen soon to complete some of the work put on halt because of Covid. Soon after he will also be looking to set up a studio in London where he currently resides to develop his practise.