Hitomi Hosono is a London-based ceramicist who won the inaugural Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize. She is known for intricate ceramic pieces that are inspired by botanical studies and her memories of the Japanese landscape and the greenery of East London.

Education and career

Hitomi Hosono was born in 1978 in

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in Japan. She attended the

Kanazawa College of Art The Kanazawa College of Art (金沢美術工芸大学, ''Kanazawa Bijutsu Kōgei Daigaku'', literally Kanazawa Art and Industrial Design University) (colloquially known as Bidai or Kanabi) is a public university in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. A ...

in Kanazawa, Japan from 1998 to 2002 where she studied Kutani Pottery. She attended the Ceramics Design Course at the Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen from 2005 to 2006, and received a Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in London in 2009. She was an Artist in Residence at Wedgwood from 2017 to 2018. Her signature style is inspired by Wedgwood Jasperware and consists of creating original sprig models and plaster moulds based on botanical examples which she then applies in layers onto a pottery base. She layers the leaves on top of the base until it is hidden creating highly decorative vessels. Pieces can take years to create. She also adds sprigs and carved leaves to ceramic boxes that have been gilded on the inside.

Selected group and solo exhibitions

2017 Hitomi Hosono,

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a United Kingdom-based charity (registered no. 299955) established in 1988 to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It was founded with a benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd (now known as Daiw ...

, London 2015 Brook Street: An Artist’s Eye, Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, London in association with

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2013 Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon, St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel Chambers Club, London

Work in collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Aberdeen Oriental Museum, Durham University, Durham The British Museum, London The Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent Victoria and Albert Museum, London Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris, France Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Selb, Germany Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Awards

2014 Winner, Jerwood Makers Open, Jerwood Visual Arts, London 2013 Winner, Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize, London 2004 First Prize, Graphic Art on Ceramics, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Tajimi, Japan 2004 Silver Prize, Craft Design 2004 Tajim, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Tajimii, Japan 2004 Hokuriku Broadcast President`s Prize, Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa, Japan 2004 Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Purchase Award, Kanazawa, Japan 2003 Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Purchase Award, Kanazawa, Japan

References

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