Masters of Slipware: East & West | Clive Bowen & Masaaki Shibata

<p>Clive Bowen studied painting and etching at Cardiff Art School before taking up an apprenticeship with Michael Leach at Yelland Pottery in North Devon from 1965 until 1969. In 1971 he bought a small agricultural property at Shebbear, near Holsworthy in North Devon and set up a workshop in the former farm outhouses. His pots are made in the local Fremington clay, a red earthenware clay in use for centuries for traditional North Devon wares. They are almost all wheel thrown with the exception of a few hand-pressed dishes.</p> <p>Public collections include:<br /> Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crafts Council Collection, London; York City Art Gallery; Stoke on Trent City Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; Mingeikan, Tokyo; Mashiko Museum of Ceramics, Japan; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.</p>

<p>Masaaki Shibata was born in 1948 in Tokyo. He studied at Chuo University, Tokyo and then was apprenticed to Kazutaka Ikuta in Tamba for 4 years. In 1975 Masaaki Shibata established his Sasayama pottery in Tamba, Japan, where he is still based today. He has received numerous awards for his work over the intervening years and is now one of the most respected slipware potters in Japan.</p> <p><strong>Masaaki Shibata exhibited for the first time at The Scottish Gallery </strong><strong>alongside Clive Bowen </strong><strong>in <em><a href="{entry:230894:url}">Masters of Slipware: East & West</a></em> in </strong><strong>April 2020. Masaaki’s work also featured in <em><a href="{entry:333861@1:url}">A Japanese Design</a></em>, August 2020.</strong></p>