Yui Tsujimura

His work draws largely on the techniques and aesthetics of medieval Sue ceramics, characterised by sober, unglazed forms fired at high temperature and heightened by the natural running of ash. Tsujimura revisits this heritage through a refined use of natural glazes in tones of blue, green and grey.

Immediately recognisable, his pieces are distinguished by the circular motifs that come from the firing process: stacked vessels leave, once separated, imprints and zones where the glaze accumulates in thick relief. The simplicity of the forms, the sobriety of the colours and the attention paid to material echo the spirit of the tea arts.

An artist recognised in Japan as internationally, Yui Tsujimura has exhibited notably at the Ippodo Gallery and features in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he took part in the exhibitions A Beautiful Country: Yamato-e in Japanese Art (2010) and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in Historical Context (2018).