Qi Fang Colbert Pop-up Shop

This ceramic collection features the artist’s beloved ‘Whatever Vases’, Chawas, and bowls alongside striking large narrative pieces and a diverse array of hanging tiles. 

Each work is brought to life through her signature technique of incising directly into clay, creating hand-carved images that become embedded within the clay body itself.

Drawing inspiration from Phenomenology, Taoism, Early Renaissance art, and Surrealism, the artist weaves original narratives across both her three-dimensional and two-dimensional works. These pieces spring from her imagination and lived experiences, exploring humanity's delicate coexistence with the natural world - how we share environments, depend on the same resources, and navigate feminist themes within these relationships.

Rather than seeking uniformity or certainty, Qi's work celebrates curiosity about the unknown, the abnormal, and the asymmetrical. Her pieces create distinctive visual narratives that embrace alternative ways of storytelling, inviting viewers into worlds both familiar and wonderfully strange.

All of the works within the pop-up are available to purchase by using the Own Art Scheme. Own Art makes buying art easier by allowing you to spread the cost of your purchase over 10 months with an interest free loan. To find out more contact us on 0191 440 4947or email shop@balticmill.com.

Based in Northumberland, Dr. Qi Fang Colbert is an internationally exhibited artist, illustrator, and ceramicist who earned her PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University in 2019.

"The subject matter on each piece conveys an open and quite often quirky, playful and sometimes ironic circular narrative. Rather than following a well-planned blueprint, I let the shape of the clay or lino determine the composition. Like a spreading vine, my expressive pictures find ways to shape the object, forming the outlines and content, and vice versa, to capture the flow of my consciousness, stories and emotions."

— Dr. Qi Fang Colbert