Eugene Hön is a ceramic artist with a passion for drawing, ballpoint renderings. He has pursued a career as an academic and practicing artist for the past thirty-seven years. He is an artist that celebrates the handmade, developing concepts and ideas within the context of a globalized society. The jewellery installation piece featured here, capitalizes on Hön’s detailed blue ballpoint pen drawings of a Barn Swallow, digitally printed as ceramic transfers and fired onto one of the shards of a broken bone china bowl. This work titled “The Road Less Traveled”, comprises the partially restored bowl with its missing shard, metamorphosed into a jewellery pendant. Hon references shards that are critical in the research into cultural migrations – even more prevalent today in a global society with its problems surrounding the displacement of people.

Images below with permission from Eugene Hön. The artist’s opinions are their own. Audio edits by Dan Dewes. “East West Village” by Tim Garland & Asaf Sirkis.