Mandy Cheng Porcelain Nerikomi

Exhibition Shapaing Time 2, by Limerick Ceramic Artists

Taking place at Draiocht Art Gallery, Adare, from 7th to 28th May 2026

Comfort Zone, nerikomi 'Bouquet'

United in Harmony, nerikomi 'Kaleidoscope'

Splash, nerikomi 'Galaxy'

Artist Statement

Mandy is a porcelain artist whose work explores elegance, precision, and movement through unique, ergonomic forms. Using the intricate nerikomi technique—layering and slicing coloured porcelain—she creates mesmerising, nature-inspired patterns that are entirely one-of-a-kind. Her minimalist aesthetic emphasises grace, balance, and the delicate strength of porcelain. Her innovative practice bridges creativity and technical mastery.

Trained originally in chemistry, Mandy later pursued ceramics full-time, establishing her own studio in 2005. She has exhibited in many countries (Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan), earning recognition including the Bronze Prize (2021 Taiwan Ceramics Biennial), the SO Fine Art Editions Ireland Award (2021), and the Creativity and Craftsmanship Award (2022, Ceramics Ireland). Her work is collected by POW Ireland and Taiwan Yingge museum.

Mandy is one of the world's renowned Nerikomi artists, featured in 'Nerikomi : The Art of Colored Clay' book by Thomas Hoadley, USA 2024.

Collection 'Comfort Zone"

I name this form ‘Comfort Zone’, it looks so different in different directions, some more comfortable than others.

Nerikomi Bouquet

Nerikomi Cascade

Exhibition at National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny

A lot of beautiful works in “From the Ground Up” exhibition in the National Craft gallery in Kilkenny, from now until mid July 2026.

Hunt Museum International Sumission Exhibition

Just delivered to Hunt Museum, Limerick for the International Open Submission exhibition, from 8 December to 28 February.

So happy that this is 1 of 200 pieces of work going to be exhibited, selected from over 1800 applications!

New Nerikomi pattern block

It is time to make new Nerikomi pattern blocks for next year. This pattern needs slicing and laminating, repeatedly 3 times to get the result!

Took me a while to figure out how to do it, and the dimensions of each blocks to eventually make the final block size 16x30cm, 18kg of porcelain, suitable to use to build my work.

It is well wrapped and rest for a few months before use.

500

This is the 500th piece of work sold (at SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin) since I focused on hand building porcelain work using Nerikomi colouring technique !

Other then the first one bought by a friend from home, the other 499 pieces have all been sold through galleries, at exhibitions and Biennials, in Ireland, UK, France, Germany and Singapore.

To know that people who don’t know me at all, see my works and decide to bring them home, always give me a wonderful warm feeling, and is a source of motivation to keep creating! Thank you.

New Delivery

Just delivered a collection of new works to Contemporary Ceramics Center, London. A few snapshots of the display there.

Cracked vessels

As my porcelain Nerikomi work gets bigger and taller, I have more pots that cracked after final firing, at 1200 degrees, result of stress build up in the layering of coloured porcelain technique. At the moment, over half develop cracks!

This year, this Nerikomi pattern has the most cracking problem, out of 5 pieces fired, only this one survived!

Embrace, Nerikomi 'Lightning'

Collection United in Harmony

Uniting two flat rectangular sheets of intricate Nerikomi patterns into a harmonious voluminous form, conjuring an image of lightness and floating about.