NAO MATSUNAGA

Nao Matsunaga Short Story Long (2021)

Nao Matsunaga Logic Things Out (2021)

Nao Matsunaga I Dream in Colour 1 (Red) (2020)

Nao Matsunaga I Dream in Colour 2 (Brown) (2020)

Nao Matsunaga I Dream in Colour 3 (Yellow) (2020)

Nao Matsunaga, Spiral Feeling (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Open Cave (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Another Day Maybe, Everyday Walker and Someday Soon (all 2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Faces in Motion 1, 2, 3 (all 2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Rock the Motion 1, 2 (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Wonderings (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Waller 1 and Waller 2 (both 2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Circular Emotions I (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Circular Emotions I (2021) alternative view

Nao Matsunaga, Circular Emotions II (2021)

Nao Matsunaga, Circular Emotions II (2021) alternative view

Nao Matsunaga, Moving Platform (2017)

Nao Matsunaga, PSURB Glaze (2016)

Nao Matsunaga, Falling Off the Verge (2016)

Nao Matsunaga, Standing Back Up (2016)

Nao Matsunaga, Resurrection of the Great White Host (2016)

Nao Matsunaga, Hard River 1-4 (2019)

Nao Matsunaga, Home Tower (2019)

(wall) Nao Matsunaga, Cosmic Intuition 2 (2019)

Nao Matsunaga was born in Japan and trained at the University of Brighton before completing an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art. He makes strange and elusive sculpture and works on paper often inspired by ceremonial objects and spaces. He works with dualities and contradictions that include the use of clay with wood, juxtapositions of matt surface and runs of glassy glaze, and a mix of organic and geometric elements. His practice speaks of enduring human concerns and personal and collective experience.

Matsunaga has exhibited widely, and completed a six-month ceramics residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2014, where he is included in the public collection. Other residencies include Cove Park, Scotland in 2010, National Academy of Art, Oslo in 2015, and LaunchPad LaB, France in 2021. He was a finalist of the Jerwood Makers Open in 2012 and won the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2013.

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