Jynsym Ong is a studio potter making high fired mostly functional ware. She has studied ceramics at Clay College in Stoke On Trent and was selected as a Daiwa Scholar enabling her to undertake an apprenticeship at Mitoh Kama in Karatsu, Japan. She is interested in patterns that are found in nature that have subtlety and variation. To achieve this she uses natural materials like ash, found clay and rocks. The pots are then fired for up to 70 hours in an Anagama (wood-fired cave kiln) which creates additional volatility in the kiln atmosphere creating unexpected surfaces from the fly ash and flame paths. With her work she is looking to enrich people’s lives in a little way every day, hoping to bring joy to the quotidian and an exaltation of the domestic.
She is showing her new works during 2024 Oxfordshire Artweeks with two other artists who are Johanna Tagada and Jatinder Singh Durhailay.
from Jynsym’s past exhibition in 2023
Komainu H25.0xW11.0xL13.0cm
Highball Cup H11.5xW7.5cm
Jelly (big) H9.0xW13.5xL15.0cm
Mug (Hexagon) H9.5xW8.0(dia)x10.5(w/handle)cm
Rainbow H14.0xW2.0xL27.0cm
Candle stand flower H6.5xW7.0cm
Tea Caddy H17.0xW13.0cm
Candle and Incense Shrine H18.0xW9.0xL30.0m
Stool U H24.5xW16.0xL24.0cm
Incense House H7.0xW5.5XL7.0cm
Festival vessel White (祭器) H13.0xW24.0xL32.0cm
Stool shape.S H16.5xW20.0xL33.0cm
Stool Monkey III H12.5xW19.5xL25.0cm
Hexagon Bowl H7.0xW12.5cm
Jynsym Ong
b. London, UK
Education
2020-2021 Mitoh Kiln, Karatsu, Japan Apprenticeship
2017-2019 Clay College, Stoke-On-Trent Diploma: Ceramics; Studio Pottery
Exhibitions
2022 “The Smell of the Earth After the Rain” Solo Exhibition, Klei, London 2019 Group Exhibition, Clay College Stoke
2019 Group Exhibition, The Department Store, Brixton
2018 Group Exhibition, Bills & Rye, Yorkshire
Stockists
Objects of Use, Oxford
Oxford Klei, London
Awards and Grants 2023 Toast New Makers Selection
2019 – 2021 Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation Scholar Japan