Hanging Object ー村田 彩 “rain of color in the steam”

A brightly colored wall hanging by ceramic pop-star Murata Aya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Roain of Color in the Steam. This piece is a new venture for her in her design aesthetic.  To date she has worked almost exclusively in marbled clay (neriage) however this piece gets a bit playful in that she is not marbling the clays but using them  individually. It is 26.2 x 26.5 x 2.7 cm (10-1/2 x 10-1/2 x 1 inch) and is in perfect condition.  There is a metal plate on back for wall hanging.

Murata Aya was born in Kyoto in 1979, and graduated the famous DODA Art School in 1998, before two years at the Kyoto College of Art, from which she graduated in 2000. Shen continued her studies at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics School, graduating in 2004.  Since she has been exhibited widely both domestically and abroad, including The USA, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan, Italy, Korea and Belgium among others. She was selected for the prestigious Paramita Ceramic Art Taishoten in 2022. Works by her are held in the Korean Ceramic Foundation, the International Ceramic Museum in Faenze, the National Tainan University as well as the Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan among others.