Artist Profile
japanese-lacquer
Mayu Nakata
Career
- 1982
- Born in Hokkaido, Japan
- 2005
- Hokkaido University, Bachelor of Fisheries
- 2017
- The Kagawa Lacquer Ware Institute
- 2018
- Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop/ Lives and works in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Awards Received
- 2015
- Received encouragement award for 58th Kagawa Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition @Mitsukoshi Department Store, Kagawa, Japan （’16)
- 2019
- Received Meitetsu M'za President Award for the 60th Ishikawa Traditional Craft Exhibition
- 2019
- Received Special Recognition Award by OHI Toyasai for the 4th Triennale of KOGEI in KANAZAWA
Exhibition
- 2017
- ZOKOKU Kagawa Lacquerware Artist Exhibition @Tokyo International Forum, Japan
- 2018
- Asian Design Art Exhibition 2018 @Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 2018
- Kanazawa Urushi no Monogatari NEXT @Matsuzakaya Department Store, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- 2019
- Art Fair Tokyo 2019 @Tokyo International Forum, Japan
- 2019
- Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo Exhibition @21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2019
- Fuori Salone 2019 -Design Language- Milan Design Week 2019 /Hotel NHOW Milan, Italy
- 2019
- Finalist, LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2019/ Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
From the owner
Mayu Nakata encounters the lacquer art kinma technique in Kagawa Prefecture and enters the lacquer art path. She became the 2019 Loewe foundation Craft Prize 2019 Finalist, and became an international figure.
She carves with a sword, applies lacquer, and polishes it. The set of carved points becomes a pattern. The motif of the pattern is the torches of Nara's bonfire or the sound of thunder in Kanazawa. However, rather than depicting it as it is, her sensitivity at that time is expressed as shapes and patterns.
We are fascinated by the fact that we see her works over and over again and enter her world. Mayumi Miyanaga