Nana Morimoto

Ceramics brought Morimoto her first success in representing animals. Ceramic art consists of kiln work, and clay work, and while there is a tendency to focus on one or the other, there is also meaning in combining the two. Time spent away from the artist’s own hands is very long compared to other materials. There is a drying stage, then the piece finally goes into the kiln. What happens inside there can only be imagined: how the glaze is melting, how the shape is changing. The artist thinks about these things as she works.

Recent exhibitions include
2024 “2 words 2025” Marco Gallery, Osaka
2023 “Colors” Kyoto Seika University Gallery Terra S, Kyoto
2023 Year-end student exhibition “Resonance” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
2022 Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Fukuoka
2022 two-person “Fujiyunai fujiyu [Inconvenienceless inconvenience]” Kara-S, Kyoto
2022 “Neja-ism” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2021 solo “Oh!? shiri–zoo” Draft Gallery, Kyoto