Gailan Ngan (Cumberland, BC, b. 1971) has a practice centered on ceramics and sculpture. Ngan collects material from many sources, both commercial and gathered from nature. Her ceramic sculpture’s accumulate layers of fused surfaces into compositions of texture and colour. Ngan’s hand-built sculptural works testify to a profound understanding of form and material, and suggest the deep influence of the resource-rich West Coast where she lives and works. Her experimental approach to ceramics is evident in her wobbly, off-kilter vessels from her early career and here in her expanded ceramic practice of sculptures that explore shape, surface texture and colour. Ngan holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and apprenticed under her late father Wayne Ngan.