Makoto Hatori's work is represented in many major public collections including: The British Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Stoke-on-Trent City Museum; Manchester City Art Gallery; Reading City Museum in the UK. Panevezyo Civic Art Gallery(Lithuania). The Liturgical Art Guild; Zanesville Art Center; Gallery of Art, Eastern Washington University; Iowa Hall Gallery, Kirkwood Community College (U.S.A.). Victorian Ceramic Group (Australia ). Pretoria Art Museum (Gauteng, South Africa). Inchon World Ceramic Center (Korea). Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts; International Ceramics Studio ( Hungary).
I am pretty sure i remember one of his joined pot assemblages being fired at what was then called Manchester Polytechnic. That would be about 1990/91, when i was a student there.
Marvellous how fire can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
door2yourheart 2 years ago