POINT OF VIEW
Facing directly at the glass kiln, Mr. Mitsui’s figure overlaps his freshly made works. Each series of motion taking shape slowly, it seems like the body temperature is quietly being poured into the cold glass.
CRAFT ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
- 1987
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- 2009
Awarded the 4th Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda, Mayor prize.
- 2012
Master of Crafts, Graduate School of Art, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts.
- 2012
Worked for Toyama Glass Studio
- 2016
Became independent
- 2016
Solo exhibition “SENSE” (Artist-in-residence Canberra Glassworks / Australia)
- 2017
Awarded the 56th Japan Crafts Exhibition, U35 prize.
- 2018
Solo exhibition “bottle people” (STYLE MEETS PEOPLE / Tokyo Midtown)
- 2018
Solo exhibition ”Takeyoshi Mitsui Glass Exhibition” (Ecru＋HM / Tokyo)
- 2018
Group exhibition “Glas- Gefäß-Objekt”（Neues Museum Nuremberg / Germany）