Commissions Include


Ceramic bird mural, Yokohama National University, Japan
Sculpture for IBJ Bank, London
Pottery for Neiman Marcus Store, USA and Seibu Department Store, Japan
Sculptures for Director’s office, LTC Bank International, London
Seven vases for Hilton Hotel, Mauritius
Architectural tiles for Asada House, Tokyo
Sculptural planter for Taurus Crafts, Gloucestershire


Stockists


The following galleries generally stock Jill Fanshawe Kato’s ceramics, but please check first!
Her work can also be seen at her studio in London, by prior appointment

Exhibitions Include


1990 Living Earth’s Rainforest Exhibition, London Natural History Museum
Two-person show with Yosei Itaka, Ginza Matsuya, Tokyo
1992 Two-person show with Yosei Itaka, Liberty, London
Featured in BBC TV’s ‘Japanese Language and People’
1993 Crafts Council shops at Islington and V&A Museum
1994 Vallauris Biennale, France
Studio Ceramics ’94, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1995 Terra Viva, France
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 Primavera at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Daiwa Foundation, London
1997 Ryubo Department Store, Okinawa
Beaux Arts, Bath
1998 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London (regular exhibitor)
1999 Contemporary British Ceramics, Bandol, France
Seventh solo show, Keio Department Store, Tokyo,
supported by British Council and Japan Airlines
Participant, exhibitor in International Ceramics Workshop,
Central Academy of Arts, Beijing, China
2000 Kunsthuis, Belgium
Beaux Arts, Bath
Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham
2001 Daiwa Foundation, London, part of Japan 2001 Festival
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
World Ceramics Expo, South Korea
Residency, Arapahoe Community College, Colorado, USA
Browse and Darby, London
2002 Beaux Arts, Bath
Taurus Crafts, Gloucestershire residency
St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
‘Gendai Igirisu Togei Sakkaten’ , Maruei, Nagoya, Japan
Teaching at Kingsway College, London
2003 Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 8th solo show. Support: British Council, JAL
Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo and Art Salon Kogen, Nagoya
Gaku Gallery, Tokyo
Coombe Gallery, Devon, with painter Gerry Dudgeon
Ceramic Collection Aberystwyth Arts Centre purchase
2004 ‘Collect’ at V & A Museum, London, with Joanna Bird Pottery
Crafts at Kenwood, London, English Heritage
‘Wild and Free’, Yew Tree Gallery, nr. St. Ives, Cornwall
Beaux Arts Bath
Woodbury Studio Gallery, Devon
Scottish Gallery ‘Plates’
2005 ‘Collect’ at V & A Museum
Kamakura Kogei Gallery, Japan
Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo, with Yosei Itaka
Green Gallery, New Zealand
Broadway Modern, Cotswolds
Rufford Ceramics Centre, Nottingham
2006 Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 9th solo show
‘Collect’ at V & A Museum, with Joanna Bird Pottery
Terra Viva, France, ‘Pichets Extraordinaire’
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Beaux Arts, Bath
St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
Teaching courses at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon
2007 ‘Uprising’ at Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Residency and teaching at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
Teaching at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon
2008 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art
Bonhams Auction for Leach Pottery Restoration Project
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Teaching studio courses at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon
Yew Tree Gallery Easter exhibition
Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely
2009 Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan, 10th solo show
Supported by Japan Airlines, endorsed by British Council, Tokyo
Gallery Tohka, Shizuoka, Japan, solo
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, solo
The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester, UK, solo
Nature in Art, Glos. residency
Gaku Gallery, Tokyo
Japan Society Exhibition, Embassy of Japan, London
2010

Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art (February 26-28)
First Prize winner, 'Asobi', Japan Society art exhibition, Embassy of Japan, London
'Love Pots, Love Food', Whichford Pottery, Warks (April 24,25)
Working at Leach Pottery, Cornwall, with Ryoji Koie
Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, with artist Breon O'Casey (September 4 - October 9)
'Collectable British Ceramics', JaM Eton Gallery, Eton, Windsor (October 28 - November 14)
Highgate Contemporary Art, London
New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
Broadway Modern, Broadway, Worcestershire

2011 'Echoes', Torre Abbey, Torquay, Devon (May, June)
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow. 'Inspired by Nature'
Millinery Works Gallery. Islington, London. 40 x 40 Exhibition
Art in Action, Oxford, with Nature in Art
Residency at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
Teaching at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 'Plates' exhibition
Contemporary Studio Pottery, Chagford, Devon
Group anagama firing, Higham Hall, Cumbria
'Inspire' Xmas exhibition, Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset
2012 40 x40 x 40 exhibition, Millinery Works, Islington, London (January 17-29)
Solo exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (March 15-21)
supported by Japan Airlines, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Solo exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath (September)
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Teaching, talks, demos


Jill taught for 17 years on the Postgraduate Ceramics Diploma Course at Goldsmiths College, London, and at Lambeth Institute and Kingsway College. She lectures (particularly on Japanese ceramics) and teaches workshops widely. In recent years she has taught / lectured in Japan, China, the USA and New Zealand in addition to the UK.

2012 Pottery courses at Coombe Farm Studios near Dartmouth, Devon.
www.coombefarmstudios.com
May 21-25 'Inspired by Nature'
September 14-16 'Creative Clay'
   
Slide Talks
10 March Tokyo American Club
July 4 'Colourful Ceramics'. Rugby & District Art Society
October 20 Cornwall Ceramics & Glass Group
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Contact


E-mail: jillfanshawekato@talktalk.net
Tel: 44-(0)20-8800-7101
Website: www.jillfanshawekato.com

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