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Gallery Space Uzuki
Gallery Space Uzuki is an online gallery featuring the work of Shigeru Hirayama.
Originally from the Tokyo area, Shigeru Hirayama studied tea ceremony ceramics for over ten years in Kyoto. For a while, he moved back to Eastern Japan and worked from his studio set up in the mountains near Tokyo, an area called Okutama.
Shigeru Hirayama
“To me, making pottery is a dialogue between clay and fire. I speak to clay and clay talks back to me. Fire in the kiln responds to my work, sometimes with unexpected results.
In other words, pottery is made through conversations between humans and nature. I hold nature in awe and my work is not made by me alone. It is always produced by finding harmony with nature. We humans can be said to be a part of nature.
I believe art has no boundaries. I'd like to make things that are loved by people around the world.
And I wish to make pottery that is not just beautiful, but also has the spirit of Zen and elements of Japanese beauty: simplicity, emptiness and grace.”
Profile:
- – 1951 : born in Shinagawa,Tokyo
- – 1972 : studied TambaTachikui Pottery under Shimizu Chiyoichi
- – 1976 : studied Kyoto Pottery under Nishimura Tokusen’
- – 1985 : set up his own pottery at Okutama, Tokyo
- – From 1997 holds two annual exhibitions at Kakiden Gallery in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Honen-in Temple in Kyoto