Akiko Hirai | Clay College, Stoke 2017
About Akiko Hirai

Akiko Hirai (b.1970, Shizuoka, Japan) moved to London in 1999, studying ceramics at the University of Westminster and Central St. Martins. Hirai’s work is both a blend of Japanese and British studio pottery traditions resulting in asymmetrical, ‘imperfect’ organic forms.
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