THE TOKYO CONNECTION: Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai
24 May - 10 August 2014
This exhibition will feature Japanese ceramics from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection. Specifically, a selection of the Gallery¡'s holdings by Shōji Hamada (1894 - 1978) and Kanjirō Kawai (1890 - 1966) created between the 1930s and 1970s. Both artists started their influential careers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and, in the process, changed the perception of the clay medium worldwide.