Contemporary

Temple Newsam acquires Junko Mori’s Silver Poetry; Spring Fever Ring, 2014

Silver Poetry; Spring Fever Ring is a tour de force of contemporary silversmithing techniques.

Sentinel, 2016, by Susan Wraight, acquired by the British Museum

This netsuke, hand-carved and stained boxwood and buffalo horn with inlaid amber and gold leaf was completed in 2016 and purchased immediately by the British Museum.

Junko Mori: Coppiced Wood

Coppiced Wood was an exhibition of new work by contemporary metalsmith Junko Mori, created in a direct response to the unique position of the Holburne Museum within the eighteenth-century landscape of Sydney Gardens.

Junko Mori’s Silver Poetry nominated as one of the Art Fund’s top ten acquisitions for 2017

We are thrilled to announce that Junko Mori’s Silver Poetry is on the Art Fund’s top ten list of supported acquisitions for 2017

Hitomi Hosono and Junko Mori selected to participate in an exhibition in Toyama, Japan

Hosono and Mori have been selected to show works in the ‘Worlds Kogei 100’ exhibition. There is a long tradition of KOGEI (which translates as ‘artisan crafts’)

British Museum Purchases Major Work By Hitomi Hosono

This is the largest Feather Leaves Bowl that Hitomi Hosono has ever made and took her almost two years to complete

Junko Mori – Artist in Residence at JamFactory, Australia

UK based metalsmith Junko Mori has just completed an extended residency at Adelaide’s multi-disciplinary art studio the JamFactory.

Contemporary Collecting and Making – Adrian Sassoon and Junko Mori in conversation at the Wallace Collection

Junko Mori’s A Silver Organism; Crystal Nigella, 2016 and A Silver Organism; Textured Spike, 2016 Acquired by the Musée Mandet

Propagation Project; Windy Leaf, 2012, By Junko Mori, Acquired by Art Gallery of South Australia

The Goldsmiths’ Comapany purchase a set of four ‘hedgerow beakers’ by Junko Mori