Minuet is a hand modelled, life size, wall mounted sculpture, made in natural stoneware clay and fired once at 1250°C. The ceramic plants include foxgloves, field poppies, sweet peas and bind weeds.
©Sophie Davidson
©Sophie Davidson
©Sophie Davidson
©Sophie Davidson
©Sophie Davidson
Kaori Tatebayashi
- Ceramicist
- London, United Kingdom
- Master Artisan
Contact
English, Japanese
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+44 7816422033
+44 7816422033
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Frozen moments
- • Kaori was born in Arita, home of Arita porcelain
- • Her current practice focuses on ceramic sculptures
- • The Sodeisha movement and British ceramics have forged her style
Kaori Tatebayashi handcrafts delicate ceramic sculptures inspired by the natural world: plants, flowers, insects, birds. Kaori juxtaposes fragility and permanence, life and death, nature and art in her pieces, demonstrating how far she has moved from the strictly functional tradition of Japanese ceramics. Born in Arita in Japan, where traditional Arita porcelain tableware was omnipresent, Kaori was trained in Kyoto. She has absorbed both the influence of revolutionary master Kazuo Yagi, promoter of the Sodeisha movement, and a more British approach to ceramics, and has become the second generation of Japanese ceramicists to focus on artistic, non functional ceramics.
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Photo: ©Tom Carter
Minuet
Photo: ©Alzbeta Jaresova
June Garden, Oxfordshire
A private commission based on the client’s garden, this piece is a hand modelled, life size, wall mounted sculpture, made in natural stoneware clay and fired once at 1250°C. The plants include hollyhocks, poppies, foxgloves, nasturtiums, plantain and grasses.
Photo: ©Alzbeta Jaresova
Bramble
Bramble, or blackberry bush, is a very common British weed, easy to spot in every field, farmland or private garden. This hand modelled, life size, wall mounted sculpture in natural clay was made for a solo show held in 2021 at Tristan Hoare Gallery in London.
Photo: ©Alzbeta Jaresova
Cardoon
Cardoon is a thistle family plant related to artichoke. Entirely hand modelled after a plant from Kaori Tatebayashi’s own garden, this piece is a life size, wall mounted sculpture in natural stoneware clay, created for a solo show held in 2021 at the Tristan Hoare gallery in London.
Photo: ©Alzbeta Jaresova
Melianthus Major (Honeybush)
Hand modelled in natural stoneware clay after a honeybush plant grown in Kaori Tatebayashi’s own garden, and fired once at 1250°C, this life size sculpture was made for a solo show held in 2021 at the Tristan Hoare gallery in London.
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