Born in 1971 in Japan.
Lives and works in Nimes (France)
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TRAINING
2005 Post-graduate studies at École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Limoges and Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva
1999 / 2004 Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, object option, ceramics workshop
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solo exhibition "Flow", La Borne Contemporary Ceramic Center / France
2023 "Peinture Japonaise d'après-guerre & Céramique contemporaine d'Asie", Galerie Louis & Sack, Paris.
2021 "Céramique Japonaise entre tradition et design contemporain", Centre céramique contemporaine La Borne / Solo exhibition at Galerie Adrienne D, Courtrai, Belgium
2020 "La Parure de Gaïa", Galerie Terra Viva, St Quentin La poterie / "Empreintes japonaises", Centre céramique de Giroussens.
Akashi Murakami last participated in C14 in 2019. The artist has acquired great dexterity in the practice of molding. She draws her inspiration from natural elements (branches, fossilized wood), whose unexpected shapes, random lines and vibrant reliefs evoke "cliffs carved by the wind and the sea, rocks hollowed out by the current, stones pierced by drops, inhabited roots, which have been there for centuries, of distant formation in time and yet so concrete before us today". (...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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