ARTISTS / Saori Yamaura

​Yamaura Hayori loves animals. She graduated from the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Azabu University in 2010. Eight years later, she completed her studies at the Ishikawa Prefectural Kutaniyaki Technical Training Institute and officially started her career as a ceramic artist. Yamaura immediately won the Toyama Prefecture Tonami City Art Exhibition Grand Prize in 2021, and successfully held his first solo exhibition during the epidemic. In recent years, she has been active in holding exhibitions in major counties and cities in Japan. Yamaura draws animals and birds with meticulous brushstrokes, expressing their beautiful appearance, as well as various body parts and expressions such as anger, sleep, and happiness, breathing life into the pottery.

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Born in Nagano Prefecture

Graduated from the Veterinary Science Department of Azabu University in 2010

Graduated from the Main Course of Ishikawa Prefectural Kutani-yaki Technical Training Institute in 2018

Currently engaged in artistic production in Toyama Prefecture

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Exhibition

2024 「The Assemblage of Colours, The Assemblage of Paintings II - Japanese Contemporary Ceramic Painting」Touch Ceramics, Hong Kong

2023 「Kutani's New Wind III. Exhibition」 Kakiden Gallery, Tokyo

          「New Generation Exhibition 2023」 Bunkindo Gallery, Gifu

            solo exhibition 「tonde tonde」 Art gallery enishira, Ishikawa

2022    solo exhibition 「tori mamire」 Art gallery syn, Toyama

2018 「E-fu Master x Lathe Master」 Gallery Yui, Ishikawa

         「Tirolean Soba Choko Exhibition, Winter Gifts Exhibition」 at Cafe & Gallery Azuminocommune Tirolean (Nagano)

 

Award

2021 Toyama Prefecture Tonami City Art Exhibition Grand Prize

2018 7th Soba Choko Art Open Exhibition, Selected

2017 3rd Yamasiro Utensil Competition, Awarded

         40th and 41st Traditional Kutani Ceramic Art Exhibition, Selected