Grogged stoneware, rugged and cracked porcelain deposits over layers of black and crawling white slips beneath running glazes in pale blue, green ash and rich iron, painted signature
H 44.8cm, D 37.2cm
Provenance: Private Collection, Newcastle. Acquired from Beaux Art Gallery, Bath, March 2017.
Condition: Perfect condition with no damage or restoration
Available for sale: £10,500
About the artist
Akiko Hirai is a distinguished Japanese artist living and working in the UK. She was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1970 and came to London to study at Central St Martins in the early 2000s. Her forms are often derived from traditional Japanese and Korean vessels such as moon jars and tea wares. She layers and carves her works, ‘looking for contrasts in the rawness of the dark textured clay and the purity of the lighter glazes’. She often uses a reduction processing in her firing, allowing the surface to evolve, a process she compares to the ageing of any material over the passing of time.
Her work is held in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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