§ Artist I
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Shota Miyashita.
Ceramic Artist · Shota Miyashita
Ceramic artist. Founder of ARTBIRTH. Bridges industry and craft from a studio in Mino.
Rooted in the ceramic territory of Mino, Miyashita ties the sensibility of an individual maker to the technical capacity of the region's factories — building a practice that crosses freely between one-of-a-kind and mass-produced. He designs more than fifty glazes himself, controlling firing in 1°C steps to compose both the physics and the landscape of the colour.
As director of the G-E-N label, he produces collaborations between artists and the region's mass-production studios — Maruasa Pottery, Ichiyō Tōen and others. His range extends from clay and glaze design, through hand-building, wheel-throwing and slab forming, to 3D printing, transfer printing and recycled materials.
