HONG Zhangliang is an artist who creates art by applying marbling techniques. An ancient technique dating back to ancient Egypt and the Tang Dynasty in China, the technique consists of a variety of different clays, which are sliced and arranged to create different patterns, and then fired after being shaped.

During his time living and studying art and philosophy in the UK, Japan and China, He tries to use materials and crafts as an entry point to explore the proposition between contemporary art and craft. He believes that in this era of uncertainty, artist can re-discover the value of crafts and materials, and their intricate connections, by researching and mastering these two. In this way, artist can solve the issues of the absence of crafts in contemporary art, and the neglect of conceptual expression and innovation in traditional crafts.

In ceramic art, he tends to break the stereotypes of material and techniques. In terms of materials, he adds minerals, oxides, fluxes to clay, and fires them at different temperatures and atmospheres to obtain a new type of material. These materials are often intermediate between clay, glaze and glass, and are metaphors for more possibilities beyond visual expression. In the application of the techniques, he combines and re-arranges these new materials to create new patterns and forms, further exploring the ineffable connection between materials techniques and artistic concepts.