牟田陽日

Yoca Muta

えびす

whale

磁器、色絵磁器

Ceramic, Iroe(porcelain decorated with polychrome enamel overglaze)

H69xD69xW67mm

2021

縁煌Enishira

ARTIST INFORMATION

2008年ロンドン、ゴールドスミスカレッジ、ファインアート科卒業。2012年石川県立九谷焼技術研修所卒業。現在、石川県能美市にて工房兼住居を構える。陶磁器に彩色を施す色絵の技法を主軸に、日常的な食器、茶器などの美術工芸品からアートワークまで多岐に渡り制作。現代の自然に対する意識の在りようをテーマに、動植物、神獣、古典図案等を再構成し色絵磁器に起こしている。日本の美感、工芸、アートの間を相互に交信するような作品制作を目標とする。

Muta was born in Tokyo in 1981, and graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a BA in Fine Arts, beginning her making career in the UK.
On returning to Japan, Muta further trained at the Ishikawa Prefecture Kutani-ware Technical Training Institute, and currently works from her studio in Nomi city. Muta’s creative work includes tableware, tea bowls and various ‘art’ works which are all intensely decorated with animals and plants in both actual and mythical forms that have been historically stylised in subjective reconstructions. Her interest is centred on the idea and technical aspects of “decoration” in Iroe Jiki (porcelain decorated with polychrome enamel overglaze) that challenges the notions of “crafts” and “fine art” with a self-critical consciousness of “Japanese aesthetics”.