Ken mihara 三原研 CV

Ken Mihara is a leading artist in contemporary Japanese ceramics. A winner of the highly coveted Japan Ceramic Society Award (2008), his works are in the collections of many prestigious museums around the world, including the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Sitting at a cross between traditional wood-fired wabi-sabi ceramic ware and modern minimalist sculptures, Mihara's stoneware are characterised by the poetic interplay of coarsely matte surfaces, sweeping curvilinear contours and sharply edged outlines. Made from clay found at the hills near his studio in Izumo, the sacred land of the gods, and created in the tradition of sekki, his works are reminiscent of the austere, minimal and remote, rugged landscapes of Japan, and exude a deep, earthy spirituality and sense of monumental timelessness.