Narique Sangster (b. 1989 – ) is a Cape Town-based, self-taught ceramicist who works exclusively with hand-building techniques.

Sangster is captivated by the concept of absorbing, experiencing, and expressing freedom in all its forms. Their work explores the fruits of freedom: moving intuitively, living in love, feeling blessed, synthesising pain, and growing at one’s own pace. Similarly, Sangster is fascinated by the idea of meaninglessness. Approaching the medium with radical honesty, toward the clay, others, and the self, Sangster allows unfamiliar or uncomfortable elements to surface in the work, even when these aspects feel dissonant or inconsequential.

The creative process is entirely freestyle, with no predetermined plan or sketch, drawing inspiration from the spontaneous flow found in a hip hop cipher.

Sangster believes that honesty is an essential tool for both personal and collective processing, asserting that liberation cannot emerge from denial. For Sangster, true freedom requires a reckoning with reality-acknowledging what is present, what has occurred, and what is possible, with the conviction that everything is possible.

Observing how culture can both empower and constrain, Sangster reflects on the complexities of heritage as a Cape Coloured, questioning which parts of their ancestry were lost and which cultural elements are authentically their own. Feeling unanchored, Sangster has found kinship in other worlds, particularly in hip hop’s fifth element (knowledge of self) and in the multiverses imagined by Black sci-fi and fantasy writers, where belonging is not tied to bloodline. These sci-fi and fantasy motifs recur as visual themes throughout Sangster’s work.