Years of an on going relationship with movement and music, meditation and Qigong practice and of course my on going learning and experimentation with clay have all culminated into my present work. 

During MANY  years I have been very much taken by the  PIT AND Saggar firing technique derived ALSO from the ancient Chinese firing method. I feel I am engaging in a dialogue with the clay, a dialogue through which I shape the material but it also shapes me. 

I am deeply touched by the fact that no matter how much humanity has destroyed whole cultures, there is always something that is going to be left for the next generations, whether in energy or matter
My work has been influenced by this fact and I find myself creating pieces that hold this energy…  

It is not the control over the material that fascinate me, but the element of the unknown. It is though the unknown that I connect to the mystery, to a place of awe and curiosity. This too, like the experience of stillness is a deep well of inspiration for me; it is the place from which I drink and thirst to keep evolving within myself and within my art.

The natural formations in my work hold the elements mentioned above. They are a product of deep listening to the material in order to hear what it is asking of me – in stillness I rest in the vastness of the unknown.

Hilda Merom

HILDA MEROM CLAY ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Born in Argentina in 1948, lives in Israel since 1971
Works and exhibits in ceramics from 1992 until today

2018- 2019, Invited by Qiong YAO, Sichuan, China government for 6 month artist in residence, lectures and solo exhibition.

2004 The Israeli Foreign Ministry sponsored the Participation in Art in Residence Program ,Jingdezhen, China,

slide presentation to the students of the Sculpture Department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

2012 - Biennale of Ceramics, Prevelle. France. Personal Invitation sponsored by the Israeli Embassy in France

2009 Gangjin, South Korea, sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Gangjin Exhibition organizers.

2003 awarded a further bursary in UK as a guest of the Designer Crafts

Selected Purchased and collections

Israeli Government Parliament building

Private collectors in: Germany, Jingdezhen (China), Usa, Sichuan (China) and Israel

Beit Kahana Museum, Israel.

Sheparton Art Gallery (Australia)

QiongYao, China museum (in constraction)
Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, SPAIN.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019- “ FLOW” Solo exhibition. QiongYao archeological Park.

Sichuan, China

2017 – “Cluj International Ceramic Biennale”. Romania.

2016 – “Resonance” . Installation Ceramic ArT Biennial of Ceramics. Eretz Israel Museum. Israel.

2016- Ceramic Design, Permanent Collection, (Knesset Israeli) Israeli Parliament.
2014- V International Ceramics Biennale Marratxi, Mallorca SPAIN
2013- Ceràmica CICA 2013, Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, SPAIN.

2012- Biennale of Ceramics, Prevelle. France .

2011- “2011 Images – Central PA Festival of the Arts”. Robeson Gallery, Penn State University. US.

2011 – “Spinning Wave” –solo Ceramics exhibition. University of Southern California .

2011- “International Chasabal Ceramic Competition” – MUNGYEONG TRADITIONAL TEA BOWL FESTIVAL South Korea.

2010 – “Union of Opposites”. Wilfried Museum, Hazorea. Solo installation exhibition. ISRAEL

2009 – “Gangjin International Ceramic Artist Exhibition and Workshop”, South Korea.

2007- “Metamorphosis & Rebirth. The 2nd. 2007 China Jingdezhen International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”. Jiang Xi Province, China.

2006- Israeli Contemporary Applied Arts –Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK.

2006- International Chawan (Oriental tea ceremony) Exhibition.Japanese Embassy in Belgium

2004- Infatuation, Sanbao Impressions Jingdezhen, CHINA.

2003 – Altech Ceramics Triennale Cape Town 2003. SOUTH AFRICA

2000 / 2001 –The Israeli Biennial of Ceramics Eretz Israel Museum. ISRAEL

1999- 1999 Gold Coast International Ceramic AUSTRALIA.

1998 – International Art Show Juried exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery  AUSTRALIA

1997 – 1-2-3 Potters Exhibition Beit Aharon Kahana ISRAEL.

1995 – International Biennial of Ceramics.Aveiro, PORTUGAL.

1994 – Feats of Clay VII Lincoln, California  USA.