About Pottery

According to the Old Testament, 
God is said to have created the first person (Adam) 
from a dust of soil (Adama).
Also in the molecular biology, 
there is said to be a theory which claims that the clay minerals 
have taken an important role for the birth of the life.
And, when we die, we literally come back in soil.
In a sense, one could say that people were born from soil 
and go back to soil before long.

I, who was born from soil and go back to soil, 
burn the soil and create “a thing”, 
I think that to fire the clay and to make “a thing” 
is a kind of resistance against 
the fate of everything which has no option 
but to go back to the soil before long. 

What is that which can be created by me now? What must be made?

To create would like to be to continue wondering, I believe.


Shinya Takahata,
Issuigama

Location, etc.

	Issui Pottery
	18 Nagahama Yomitan Nakagami Okinawa Japan
	+81989580739
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PROFILE OF CERAMIC ARTIST:

Name: Shinya Takahata

2011: Made works of earthenware in Lampang Thailand.
      Exhibition at swallow studio Tokyo.
2010: Exhibition at Cafe Unizon in Ginowan city.
      Exhibition at Utsuwa & zakka sara in Takamatsu city.
2008: Exhibition at Cafe Hakoniwa in Motobu city.
      Exhibition at Rin of Koshi city.
      Group exhibition at the Global Gallery in Okinawa city. 
2007: Three-Artists Exhibition in Umeda Angers Ravissant
      Received the Incentive Award of the Contemporary Okinawa Pottery Exhibition 
      Exhibition at Rin in Koshi city.
2006: Won a prize in the Okinawa Exhibition.
2005: Received the Incentive Award of the contemporary Okinawa Pottery Exhibition
2003: Learned continuously under Mr. Toshio Kinjo 
      (Eldest son of Jiro Kinjo, the human national treasure).
2002: Settled in Okinawa to learn the Tsuboyayaki pottery in Yomitan village.
1996: Graduated from the Niihama National College of Technology 
1976: Born in Amagasaki, Japan. 



			

Issui Pottery was introduced by the following media:

Croissant issue No. 752 / Monthly Journal Uruma 
Tennen Seikatsu
Okinawa Style / Okinawa earthenware
Rurubu Okinawa / Maple Okinawa / Kotoripu and in other guide books
Croissant issue No. 772 / Zakka Catalog early summer version issue No. 106

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