	Takeshi YASUDA Dates: b. 1943 Born in Japan he was trained at Mashiko, an area famed for its folk pottery, where he established his own workshop. He moved to Britain in 1973 and quickly established a career as one of the leading ceramics artists in the UK. The basis of his work is the wheel thrown vessel which can be both functional and a visual object with a sense of symbolic significance. His early work was in stoneware glazed with cream and flowing greens and browns that emphasised the plastic quality of the clay body. In the late 1990s he developed his Creamware, elegant functional ceramics with crisp profiles covered with a fluid off-white glaze. His most recent work is in porcelain working with folded, collapsed and suspended forms. Takeshi Yasuda has lectured and taught in many parts of the world and now lives in Bath. From 1992 until recently he was Associate Professor of Applied Art at the University of Ulster and, since 1997, has also been a tutor at the Royal College of Art.

Takeshi YASUDA

Dates: b. 1943

Born in Japan he was trained at Mashiko, an area famed for its folk pottery, where he established his own workshop. He moved to Britain in 1973 and quickly established a career as one of the leading ceramics artists in the UK. The basis of his work is the wheel thrown vessel which can be both functional and a visual object with a sense of symbolic significance. His early work was in stoneware glazed with cream and flowing greens and browns that emphasised the plastic quality of the clay body.

In the late 1990s he developed his Creamware, elegant functional ceramics with crisp profiles covered with a fluid off-white glaze. His most recent work is in porcelain working with folded, collapsed and suspended forms. Takeshi Yasuda has lectured and taught in many parts of the world and now lives in Bath. From 1992 until recently he was Associate Professor of Applied Art at the University of Ulster and, since 1997, has also been a tutor at the Royal College of Art.