TAKESHI YASUDA
Was born in Tokio in 1943 and trained at the Daisei-Gama Pottery in Mashiko from 1963 to 1966. He then worked at Mashiko for a further seven years before settling in Britain in 1973. He is well known for his unique tableware and his critical survey of contemporary European eating habits. He accomplishes the latter in a way only a non-European can do. He is a studious observer of European dining rituals, passionate about food and cooking and obsessive about coffee. He approuches all this as he does pottery: with Japanese vigour and sensitivity. He is currently Professor of Applied Arts at the University of Ulster. His work is represented in numerous prestigious collections, including that of the Crafts Council and of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has held one-man exhibitions in Britain and in continental Europe as well as in Australia and Japan.