INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS FESTIVAL 2013
FRI 28 – SUN 30 JUNE 2013
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Mid Wales, UK
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The
2013 International Ceramics Festival, the UK’s leading festival of
ceramics, will take place at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre over the
weekend of Friday 28 – Sunday 20 June 2013.
Internationally
renowned ceramicists and potters from all over the world will be
travelling to the beautiful coastal surroundings of Aberystwyth to take
part in a jam-packed weekend of special exhibitions, artist-led talks,
practical demonstrations, lectures and films. The artists’ workspaces
will also be open to the public and there will be the chance to buy work
from the leading artists.
This
year promises to be a stellar line up for the festival, with artists
travelling from as far as USA, Korea, China, Spain, Poland and New
Zealand. Participating artists demonstrating their work include American artist Beth Cavener Stichter, whose
provocative and emotionally charged animal sculptures turn the
traditional use of ceramics on its head; one of the world’s foremost
porcelain ceramicists, Takeshi Yasuda, whose beautiful, wheel thrown pots are currently being exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum's exhibition: 'China’s White Gold: Contemporary porcelain from Jingdezhen', and Doug Fitch, one of the UK’s leading slipware potters.
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2013 also marks new partnership between the International Ceramics Festival and the V&A. Keiko Masumoto,
who is the current Toshiba Japanese Ceramics Resident at the V&A in
London, known for her delicate hand-building and intricate painting
skills of the traditional Japanese style, will be visiting the festival
and demonstrating her ceramic techniques, and also showing how she is
using V&A collections to inform her skilled contemporary works.
Keiko Masumoto will be demonstrating the ceramic techniques used in her Motif series
to create sculptural work inspired by the pattern and shapes of
historical ceramics. Masumoto, who is known for her delicate
hand-building and intricate painting skills of the traditional Japanese
style, was born and grew up in Tatsuno City, Japan. She studied Ceramic
Art at BA and MA level at Kyoto City University of Art where she
became especially interested bringing together traditional Japanese
ceramic craft practice with fine art concepts. She has exhibited in
numerous exhibitions in Kyoto, Tokyo, Kobe and internationally in London
and Seoul. Keiko exhibited at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
with a solo show developed for the Touch and Sense series, a hugely
popular annual exhibition of sensual gallery experiences for blind and
partially sighted people. Masumoto currently teaches ceramics at Kobe
Design University, and has previously taught at the Ceramic Studio in
Fumonsha, Kyoto.
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