Junko Mori
Junko Mori (森 純子, Mori Junko) (born 1974) is a Japanese artist and metalworker born in Yokohama, Japan.
Career[]
Mori graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA, in three-dimensional design.[1] She then worked as a welder in a factory for nine months.[2] From 1998 to 2000 she studied silversmithing and metalwork at Camberwell College of Arts in London.[1] She then spent two years as artist-in-residence at Liverpool Hope University.[2] In 2005 she was among the eight metalworkers short-listed for the in metal.[3]
Work and holdings[]
Mori makes complex sculptures of hand-forged steel or silver.[1] Her Propagation Project is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.[citation needed] Other public collections holding examples of her work include the British Museum,[4] the Victoria and Albert Museum,[1] the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Manchester Art Gallery, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the National Museum Cardiff, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the National Museums Liverpool and the Ulster Museum.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d A Very Large Propagation Project of Textured Spikes. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. Accessed August 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Grant Gibson (3 July 2013). Real Steel. London: Crafts Council. Archived 21 April 2015.
- ^ Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2005. London: Crafts Council. Archived 23 December 2005.
- ^ Propagation Project; Ring of Small Petals. London: British Museum. Accessed August 2021.
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