Hidemi Tokutake is a Japanese-born artist who began her ceramic journey at the Seto Ceramic School in Japan. She later traveled to Australia, where she studied for five years and obtained a Masters of Ceramic from the National Art School in the spring of 2014 and became a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). Demi has had solo exhibitions in Australia, Taiwan, Denmark, Scotland, and the USA and participated in group exhibitions in Japan, Australia, the USA, Belgium, Morocco and Korea. And now she shows her artworks in Delft.
The work of Hidemi Tokutake from Japan is constructed organically by hand. The base often consists of a combination of a kind of calyxes from which wild growths appear to emerge. Her never-ending search for glaze effects in color and character make the work fascinating and place the objects in a series that makes you curious about what comes next.
Here we see a large of variation in color, size and manner of display, hanging or standing. A beautiful, wild Japanese garden in ceramic. The collection for this exhibition was partly created during a Delft artist-in-residence period in the summer of 2023.
On Friday, April 26, the artist will be present in the gallery from 4:00 PM to explain her work to her public.