Queenie Leung: Minimal 2.0

Queenie Leung: Minimal 2.0

Opening Reception: Friday 20 June, 4pm–8pm
Exhibition: 20 June – 12 July 2026
Opening Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 1pm–6pm
Venue: Co-Ninety, G/F 27 Sau Wa Fong, Wan Chai

Queenie Leung

Nearly four decades in clay. UK-trained, shaped over time by the exchange with students drawn to Japanese aesthetics, and by the daily discipline of the wheel.

Queenie throws a bowl in two or three pulls. She trims in two or three passes. Not because the work is easy — but because that kind of economy is what thirty-eight years of practice earns you. The restraint is not absence. It is the result of knowing exactly what a form needs, and choosing to stop there.

Minimal 2.0

In 2017, Queenie presented Minimal — a body of work that stripped everything back to form. Refined silhouettes. Precise proportions. The evidence of the hand, without the hand showing off.

Minimal 2.0 returns to that same discipline from a different vantage point.

The forms hold. What has changed is the surface. For this body of work, Queenie has explored new glazes, new materials, and new firing approaches — not to embellish the form, but to deepen the conversation it holds. The glaze does not cover the clay. It reveals what the clay and fire decided together.

Across approximately 70 pieces — bowls, cups, jars, plates, sake cups, sake bottles — the work asks a question that only decades of practice can pose: when you truly understand a form, what more can it tell you?

On Minimalism

Minimalism in ceramics is often misread. It is not the absence of effort. It is not the refusal to decorate. It is the result of deep understanding — of knowing what belongs, and having the skill to leave everything else out.

Queenie's work demonstrates this quietly. A cup sits right in the hand. A bowl holds its proportion from every angle. The surface responds to light in a way that changes as you look. None of this happens quickly. It accumulates over time, through thousands of pieces and the willingness to keep asking the same questions.

Minimal 2.0 is not a departure. It is a continuation — of the same practice, taken further.

Join us from 20 June to 12 July to experience Queenie Leung's latest work. Pieces are available to purchase in the gallery and online. An opening reception will be held on Friday 20 June from 4pm to 8pm.

We hope to see you there.