Shunemon Okugawa

1949 -
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    • Category
      Ceramics
    • Techniques
      Pale blue porcelain, White porcelain
    • Born
      1949 -
    • Membership
      Full member, Japan Kogei Association
      Shunemon Okugawa Kiln
      Part-time lathing lecturer, Arita College of Ceramics
    Shunemon Okugawa

    Style

    Shunemon’s works are characterized by beautiful forms that only an artist who has kept pursuing wheel shaping is able to create. His finished works with decorative engraving are often so thin that when held to the light they are transparent, and clearly show his desire to waste no porcelain clay.

    His works are marked by a contradictory sharpness and softness; delicate engraving, and such sections as the rim and foot (bottom) demonstrate his painstaking handwork, with meticulous attention to each technique he spares no effort in finishing a work.

    Biography

    • 1949
      Born in Arita Town, Saga Prefecture
    • 1964
      Started production of ceramics
    • 1971
      Studied under OKUGAWA Chuemon, a holder of national intangible cultural property
    • 1974
      Selected for Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition (first time)
    • 1979
      Independent under the name of OKUGAWA Shunemon
    • 1981
      Full member, Japan Kogei Association
    • 1982
      Started solo exhibitions (mainly in Tokyo)
    • 1986
      Passed first-class skilled worker certification for hand pottery wheel shaping Acknowledged as a traditional craft artist for hand pottery wheel shaping
    • 1989
      Held an exhibition of the last works of the late Chuemon, and his own works
    • 1994
      Acknowledged as a model of an outstanding skilled worker by Saga Prefecture
    • 2000
      Saga Contemporary Ceramics from the Home of Japanese Porcelain, British Museum, UK
    • 2001
      "Seihakuji Kamon Ozara" collected by British Museum
      Instructor, pottery wheel course, Saga Prefectural Arita College of Ceramics
    • 2002
      Acknowledged as a "Contemporary Master Craftsman" title bestowed on outstanding skilled artisans by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    • 2005
      Received the Medal with Yellow Ribbon
    • 2011
      Exhibited at Shanghai Art Fair
    • 2014
      2014 HERITAGE Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, New York, US
      HERITAGE Contemporary Japanese Ceramics:Living National Treasures and Other Masters, the Japanese Embassy, Washington, DC

    Awards

    • Received the Medal with Yellow Ribbon from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    • Received the title of Contemporary Master Craftsman and Outstanding Skilled Worker from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    • Selected for and awarded at many exhibitions, including the Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition, the West Japan Arts and Crafts Exhibition,
      the Saga Exhibition, the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, the Kyushu Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition,
      the Issuikai, the Chunichi International
      Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, the Western Japan Ceramic Exhibition,
      the International Ceramics Exhibition, and other exhibitions

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