Kenji Uranishi

Lovely parcel arrived recently from author of this wonderful book “CERAMICS AN ATLAS OF FORMS” this book will make you love ceramics more! 💖 thanks so much for including me 🙇🏻

Thanks for the feature Museum of Brisbane - I’m proud to be part of this wonderful show! 🌳✨

I'm really honoured to be included in this exciting exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane opening next month - plus the connected programming coming up in the coming months offers so much for artists, potters & supporters. I hope to see you there!

Your plans for 13 May are set in stone!

Clay: Collected Ceramics opens in 2 weeks. Slip into an exhibition that spins the wheel on how we perceive Clay.

Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/MoBClay

I'm really excited to be heading to Canberra tomorrow (23 March) for the opening of my exhibition 'Landing' at Beaver Galleries. I hope to see you from 5.30pm at the Gallery if you're in Canberra! https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/landing/uranishi/

I just spent a wonderful week in Adelaide undertaking a residency at the JamFactory with support also from Art Gallery of South Australia. It was so great to meet with and have mentoring sessions with some of the talented artists at Jam Factory and to visit the students at TAFE. I also really enjoyed talking to the guides at AGSA about my work as well as an in-conversation with Rusty. Thank you so much to Stephanie James Matten and the team at Jam and Rusty Kelty from AGSA for all of your support!✌️

This piece, Cloud across the sea VIII (2022), recently featured in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia Australia curated by the incredible Rusty Kelty. It was a very meaningful exhibition to me, and to be included alongside the work of so many iconic Japanese ceramic artists was a real honour. Thank you Rusty and AGSA! "Pure form: Japanese sculptural ceramics is a major exhibition that presents the complex narrative of Japanese ceramics which took place in the aftermath of the Second World War and its continuing resonance with contemporary practitioners. The revolution in clay which liberated future generations of ceramicists also gave rise to the first generation of female practitioners who injected a vital new energy and perspective into the ceramics culture of Japan." Title: Kenji Uranishi Cloud across the sea VIII (2022), Slip-cast porcelain with blue glaze, 29.5 x 16.5 x 16.5

I have work in a group exhibition with the wonderful Anna Maas at Skepsi Gallery in Victoria - the show is called Voices and I'm proud to be exhibiting alongside the talented artists David Pottinger, Garry Bish, Susan Robey. It closes tomorrow so if you're in the area, I hope you can make it! These are some of my works.

Thanks The Canberra Times for stopping by our show 'Built: Contemporary Ceramics' at Beaver Galleries! https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7535899/nature-and-the-modern-world-collide/

Nature and the modern world collide These five artists all focus on the concept of structure as an organising tool in the creation of their ceramic objects.

I'm happy to share that a selection of my new works called ‘Clouds across the ocean’ are showing at Beaver Galleries from today, alongside my talented colleagues Julie Bartholomew Somchai Charoen and Alterfact I hope you can get along to see the show if you’re in Canberra!

'Clouds across the ocean'
In the early morning it was still
Not just the air but the sea too
The gentle before-sunrise light made a subtle yellow, pink-blue sky
Looking out across the ocean
Clouds were floating between me and the other land beyond, busy talking to each other
I guess they were chatting about life out there?
No sooner had I thought it, when one of the clouds peered down at me, but said nothing
And went back to its conversation
So I just kept walking.

https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/multi-artist-exhib/built-contemporary-ceramics/

I'm honoured to be included in this important exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney - I hope you can get along to see it if you're around! https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/powerhouse-museum-celebrates-50-years-of-ground-breaking-pottery-20211018-p590zo

Powerhouse Museum celebrates 50 years of ground-breaking pottery The Powerhouse Museum celebrates work by three generations of renowned artists.

Wonderful to see my lovely friend Mel Robson’s smiling face in the news!

Waste not, want not: Buffel-busting duo turn controversial grass into beautiful ceramics Two outback ceramicists experiment with a glaze from an introduced grass that conservationists hate and pastoralists love.

Hope you can make it along to the opening of 'Make It: Tools, Technique and Time' at artisan in Brisbane on Friday 19 July, an exhibition that will show how seven diverse artists (including me!) use tools and techniques to handcraft our work. RSVP at the link https://artisan.org.au/blogs/news/make-it

MAKE IT TOOLS, TECHNIQUE & TIME Main Gallery20 July - 14 September Tools are the key to understanding humanity. As a society develops, so too does its use of tools. We’re wholly dependent on them, and use them from each moment to the next. Whether you’re popping in a nail, stitching up a hole, or ju...

Behind the scenes in my studio today preparing for an upcoming group exhibition with artisan that's all about artists and their tools 'Make It: Tools, Technique and Time' https://artisan.org.au/blogs/news/make-it

A beautiful Brissie day for crafting next to one of my new art beacons - it was great to see a couple of them up close in their new home!

2.5 years after attending our first meeting, it's great to see this project finally coming to fruition!

'Sodeisha: Connected to Australia' at Newcastle Art Gallery closes this weekend. I was honoured to be part of this special exhibition representing the Australian selection of artists...but of course I also felt so closely connected to the Japanese artists too. One of the exhibiting artists from the Sodeisha side was my university teacher's wife - it was so nice to 'meet' her work in Australia! This is one of my pieces in the exhibition that I hadn't seen in ten years since it joined the Newcastle Collection - it was nice to 'meet' that little one again too!

Credit:
Kenji Uranishi
Pleated bowl 2009
porcelain with inlaid slip and celadon glaze
11.8 x 20.0cm
Les Renfrew Bequest 2009
Newcastle Art Gallery collection
Image courtesy of Newcastle Art Gallery

Thanks for including me in your new exhibition QUT Art Museum - I'm really happy to be part of your Collection & that you snapped me in motion at the opening!! 😁 https://www.facebook.com/pg/QUTArtMuseum/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10156935133726885

What a wonderful week I had in Hobart! I'm still trying to process all the new information and inspiration as well as the history, the beautiful nature and the patterns I noticed around Hobart...but most of all, I caught up with some great friends, and made some lovely new ones. Thank you so much to the The Australian Ceramics Triennale for involving me in the program and congratulations on a fantastic conference! I didn't want to come home!!

Thanks to everyone who came to my presentation this morning 😅 and to the demonstration this afternoon at the The Australian Ceramics Triennale - I’m demonstrating again on Saturday afternoon so please stop by!

I'm really happy to be back in Tassie for The Australian Ceramics Triennale and I'm looking forward to catching up with lots of ceramics friends over the week! We visited Cradle Mountain last year and it was so so beautiful 💚

When you unexpectedly find your hands on Twitter...thanks ABC Arts for giving ceramics the spotlight!

The Sodeisha movement in Japan had a big influence on my practice and my connection with clay – both functional and non-functional. The literal translation of Sodeisha to me is:
So – hashiru/run
Dei – doro/mud
Sha – group

Running through mud! The artists behind this sculptural clay movement, which was established in 1946, often had a traditional ceramics background but were also trying to push the boundaries of the Japanese ceramic scene. The attitudes that drove this movement have stayed with me throughout my career – and even now keep me going and inspire me to try something new.

I’m really looking forward to being part of this exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery opening on 2 March, ‘Sodeisha: connected to Australia’. https://www.nag.org.au/Exhibitions/Future/SODEISHA-connected-to-Australia

Image by Carl Warner: Kenji Uranishi Uzu (Swirl) 2015 19x31x31

On Saturday 2 March I'll be attending the discussion about 'Sodeisha & ceramics today' at Newcastle Art Gallery with James Collis Exhibitions Coordinator Newcastle Art Gallery, Prof. Kevin White, RMIT Melbourne and Saturo Hoshino, exhibiting artist - hope you can make it if you're in Newcastle! And I'm looking forward to seeing this piece again in the exhibition which now lives in their collection! More details here:
https://www.nag.org.au/Whats-On/Event-Calendar/Artist-Forum-SODEISHA-and-ceramics-today

Late last year the new Queensland Police Memorial for fallen officers was unveiled in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens - I'm proud to have been a Design Collaborator with UAP on this very special project.

Thanks for the write-up Bellbottom Media! The 'Clay Intersections' exhibition at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery closes on 10 November!

Mata ne little Tsubomi (flower buds) - enjoy your trip to Canberra!

Almost time to send this one down to Canberra for the Beaver Galleries show opening on 8 November!

So great to be exhibiting alongside these talented artists - Dai Li & Kelly Austin - 'A point of difference' opens at Beaver Galleries in Canberra on 8 November and runs until 25 November!