Articles and Reviews

2020
I Remember
Doug White, Globe and Mail, July 14

Chance Elements: On Wayne Ngan (1937-2020)
Jesse Birch, Momus, August 14

B.C. potter Wayne Ngan turned clay into objects of rare sculptural beauty
Adele Weder, Globe and Mail, June 30

Wayne Ngan – B.C.’s ceramic artist whose ‘whole life is an art project’ – has died
Carol Off interviews Gailan Ngan, CBC As It Happens, June 26

Obituary: Wayne Ngan’s life of magical art in ceramics and sculpture
Carla Wilson, Times Colonist, June 26

2015
5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Wayne Ngan and John Riepenhoff, and More
Scott Indrisek, Blouinartinfo, Sept. 14

Linda Yablonsky around New York fall openings
Linda Yablonsky, Artforum, Sept. 14

The Invisible Social Traces of Objects: Wayne Ngan’s Ceramic Vessels
Joni Low, The Capilano Review, Winter, Issue 3.25

2014
Tamara Henderson and Wayne Ngan & Gailan Ngan at The Apartment, Vancouver
Mousse Magazine

Contemporary ceramics in British Columbia
Debra Sloan, Ceramics Now Magazine, Issue 3

2013
Dancer Andrea Nann looks back for new INK
Janet Smith, Georgia Straight, Jul. 23

Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970–1985
Maria Tippett, BC Studies, November 2013

2012
Back to the Land
John Luna, Focus, Oct. issue

Islands noted for plethora of fine pottery
Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria, Oct. 20

Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries by Scott Watson
Maria Tippett, BC Studies, Autumn

2011
‘Thrown’: respect for the ordinary pot. BC once had a thriving pottery scene, emblematic of ’60s counterculture. What happened?
Adele Weder, The Tyee, Aug. 11

2010
Exhibition: Vancouver Collects
Dianna Waggoner, Potters Guild of BC Newsletter, Mar. issue

2004
Ceramic Art Holds More Than Water
Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Feb. 19

Living Calligraphy set to Gongs
Globe and Mail, Dec.

The breathtaking art of Wayne Ngan
Robert Amos, Times Colonist, June

A license to kiln
Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail, March 15

2000
An Alchemist of Clay and Colour
Robert Amos, The Islander, Dec. issue

1998
A Potter’s Alchemy
Lynne Milnes, Gardens West, Sep. issue

1997
Visiting Ngan
Fusion Magazine, Winter issue

1994
Canada in Clay
North by North West

1992
Firing up the Clay
T.V. Times, Nov. issue

1990
Hsiung Shih Art Monthly

1989
Masters of the Craft
Laura Langston, Beautiful British Columbia, Winter

1986
Artists in the Stream
Enroute Magazine, Sep. issue

Creating from Tradition: a taste of our modern art
Publication from the National Palace Museum, Taipei

1985
Wayne Ngan
Western Living, Jul. issue

Contemporary Craft: The Human Touch
National Museums of Canada

1981
The Power Behind the Thrown
The Globe and Mail review

Purity of form gives BC potter’s work added complexity
Globe and Mail

1979
Canada’s Wayne Ngan
Ceramics Monthly, Sep. issue

Pottery by Wayne Ngan
Canada Craft monthly publication, Mar. issue