Ikuko Iwamoto Contemporary Ceramics

These vessels and tableware are covered in spikes or dots and focus on the unusual shape and pattern found in the invisible world of cells genes and microorganisms inside our bodies.

Ikuko iwamoto contemporary ceramics.

Ceramics in the city at geffrye museum. A world of intricacy and detail of mathematical pattern and organic chaos of beauty and repulsion. Metalwork 1990 1993 crafts and history ceramic at tezukayama college in japa n prizes 2009 the ceramic review prize for innovation at cal 2009 2008 development award at crafts counsil. Ceramic art london at central saint.

Ikuko iwamoto ceramics education 2004 2006 ma royal college of art ceramic and glass 2002 2004 ba ceramic at camberwell college of arts elective subject. Ikuko s work has an uncompromising purity that is captivating. Her practice formally focused on creating functional objects such as teapots and flower vases is now producing larger works and sculpture. Ikuko iwamoto is a japanese artist living in london whose intricate sculptural pieces are made from finely crafted porcelain.

Ikuko iwamoto winner of the 2019 young masters maylis grand ceramics prize shown here alongside the winning entry a crescent in downs park 2019 porcelain hypodermic needle coiled cable toothbrush and tape dispenser. To create the objects iwamoto first slip casts the body of the bowl. They are the vehicle to make visible an invisible microscopic world. Ikuko iwamoto is a london based ceramicist is inspired by the microscopic world and makes intricate sculptural work out of porcelain.

Group exhibition at d contemporary mayfair london. Many of you who have been with cavaliero finn from the beginning will know that we have been working with japanese ceramicist ikuko iwamoto practically since we started the. Cracked ceramic exhibition at 50 golborne road. She then moved to london to do an undergraduate degree in ceramics at the camberwell college of arts and she subsequently completed an ma in ceramics and glass at the royal college of art.

Ikuko iwamoto makes exquisite cups and other objects for a bizarre tea ceremony. A world of intricacy and detail of mathematical pattern and organic chaos of beauty and repulsion. Ikuko makes exquisite cups and other objects for a bizarre tea ceremony. London based artist ikuko iwamoto gathers inspiration for her spike covered vessels from microscopic sources imitating the shape of the nearly invisible microorganisms that inhabit our bodies.

Ikuko iwamoto is a london based japanese artist who uses porcelain to create eccentric table top pieces and sculpture. Modern japanese design at manchester art gallery. They suggest the everyday the ordinary but are in fact extra ordinary. Ikuko iwamoto ikuko started making ceramics in 1990 at tezukayama college in japan.

2016 women s association of ceramic art at kyoto municipal museum of art. Next she drills dozens of holes into the surface of the vessel and fills them with double ended clay spikes secured with slip.