花の色はうつりにけりないたづらにわが身世にふるながめせしまに

The flowers withered

Their color faded away

While meaninglessly

I spent my days in the world

And the long rains were falling

Shingu Sayaka is one of Japan's rising stars. She is well-known in and outside Japan for her ceramic flower series. Unlike real flowers, her large sculptural pieces tend to have no vivid color, but black colored clay and white glaze; they project a strong and quiet impression. Flowers are an everlasting theme for artists, most notable in the west are Robert Mapplethorpe and Georgia O'Keeffe to name a few. They might see the cycle of dead ends and fresh starts in flowers. As we all know, when we buy flowers, it doesn't last long. If a flower lasts long, it begins to wither. The beauty is not in its existence but in its process of disappearing.

In Japan, 無常 (Mujyo/ mutability, uncertainty, impermanence) is one of common sense. People love 桜(Sakura/ Cherry blossoms) because they are fleeting. Many arts have been made for that fleeting beauty. One of the six best waka poets of the early Heian period, Ono no Komachi (小野小町 825-900), who was renowned for her unusual beauty, made this poem about flower and her beauty.

Artist CV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2014 Solo Exhibition: EN Tou ReZ ,Kobe

2015 Solo Exhibition: Tosei Gallery, Osaka

Solo Exhibition: Utsuwa Note, Saitama

Group Exhibition ART OSAKA

2016 Solo Exhibition: Gallery Labo, Ehime '18 '19

2017 Solo Exhibition: Tsubonakai, Tokyo

2017 Group Exhibition: Yakata Yusai, Tokyo

2018 Solo Exhibition: Nihonbashi Takashimaya Craft Salon, Tokyo

2019 Group Exhibition Setouchi Municipal Museum of Art, Okayama

Group Exhibition: Kenninji Temple Tacchu Ryosokuin (両足院), Kyoto

2020 Solo Exhibition: Tsubonakai, Tokyo

2021 Solo Exhibition: Gallery Labo, Ehime, Japan

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

1979 Born in Osaka

2001 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts

2003 Studied at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park

2004 Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition (07)

2008 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Biennale (The Museum of Kyoto)

2010 Solo Show at Galleria Ceramica, Tokyo

2012 Paramita Museum Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition (Paramita Museum, Mie)

2013　ART OSAKA 2013

　　　 Group Show “LA CERAMIQUE JAPONAISE” in Paris

2014　Group show in Takashimaya Department Store

Saihodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Premonition of Beauty at Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan

Gallery Suchi・Gravity, Tokyo Japan

Solo exhibition at Antore, Kobe, Japan

2015 ART OSAKA

Gallery Suchi・Gravity, Tokyo, Japan

Solo exhibition at Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto, Japan

Solo exhibition at Gallery To-sei, Osaka, Japan

Solo exhibition at Utsuwa Note, Saitama, Japan

2016 Saihodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Solo exhibition at Gallery Labo, Ehime, Japan

2017 Gallery Yuusai, Tokyo, Japan

Solo exhibition at Gallery Kochukyo, Tokyo, Japan

Solo exhibition at Gallery Utsuwa Kan, Kyoto, Japan

2018 Solo exhibition at Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo

2019 Pulsation Sayaka Shingu Exhibition