School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Takeshi Yasuda

Born: 1943, Japan, Tokyo

Ceramicist. Born in Japan, Yasuda was trained at the Daisei Kiln in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, an area famed for its folk pottery, where he established his own workshop. He moved to Britain in 1973 and quickly established a career as one of the leading ceramics artists in the UK. The basis of his work is the wheel-thrown vessel which can be both functional and a visual object with a sense of symbolic significance. His early work was in stoneware glazed with cream and flowing greens and browns emphasising the plastic quality of the clay body.

In the late 1990s Yasuda developed his creamware: elegant functional ceramics with crisp profiles covered with a fluid off-white glaze. His most recent work is in porcelain working with folded, collapse and suspended forms. Takeshi Yasuda has lectured and taught in many parts of the world and now lives in Bath. From 1992 until 2001 he was Associate Professor of Applied Art at the University of Ulster and, since 1997, has also been a tutor at the Royal College of Art. In 2014 Yasuda was awarded an Honorary Degree from Bath Spa University.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Jug] C1408 Ceramics

[Large Serving Dish] C1132 Ceramics

[Teapot] C1494 Ceramics



 
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