祖父は益子焼の販売店を営み、父の代から作陶しています。

私は益子の伝統的な材料・技法を使ってどのような表現をするか、また手に馴染み、毎日使ってもらえるような工夫を考えています。

自分がいなくなった後も、誰かが気に入って使っていく、手を抜かずに作られたもの。生活や文化の移ろう中でも普遍的な、今の時代にしか生まれえない伝統の在り方を模索しています。

My grandfather runs a Mashiko-ware shop and has been making pottery since my father's generation.

I try to express Mashiko's traditional materials and techniques in pieces that are comfortable in the hand and can be used every day.

I am trying to create something made without cutting corners, something that someone else will like and use even after I am gone. I am searching for a way of being that is universal, even in the midst of changing lifestyles and cultures, a tradition that can only be born in this day and era.

 

1983 Born in Mashiko 2006 Completed Fine Arts Course at Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Sculpture 2010 Completed the course at Tochigi Ceramic Technology Support Center 2017 Newcomer Prize, National Exhibition 2017 Matsumoto Craft Fair 2018 Incentive Prize, Tochigi Prefecture Art Festival 2019 Ceramic Art Bizen Invitation Residency 2020 Invited to exhibit at Stratford Gallery, UK 2022 Invited to exhibit at MAKE southwest, UK 2023 Invited to exhibit at Ibaraki Ceramic Museum, Collection