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Takuro Shibata Examples of work included in the June 2007 Harlequin Gallery exhibition.
No.41 Chawan – Noborigama-fired using local North Carolina clays, unglazed. Height: 8.0cm (3.1") Diameter at the top: 13.0cm (5.1”) Price: £85	No.28 Large jar from the first firing (Hatsugama) of the new anagama kiln during March 2007. Decorated with local white clay slip, unglazed. Height: 36.0cm (14.2") Price: SOLD
No.40. Chawan from the first firing of the new anagama. Made from North Carolina native clays, unglazed. Height: 7.0cm (2.75") Diameter at the top: 12.0cm (4.75”) Price: £86	No.30 Covered jar – made with Virginia native clays and pine wood ash glaze. Noborigama-fired. Height:17cm (6.7”) Price: £98
No.34 Box made from local North Carolina clays with pine wood ash glaze, Noborigama-fired. Dimensions: 14.0cm by 20.0cm (5.5” by 7.9”) Price: £86
No.33 Small jar made from North Carolina native clays and Noborigama- fired. Height: 14.75cm (5.8”) Price: £66	No.47 Yunomi from the Hatsugama firing of the new anagama. This is a traditional “black horse” yunomi that is made especially for this first firing and is said to bring you luck once you have drunk tea from it. Height: 7.6cm (3.0”) Diameter: 8.4cm (3.3”) Price: SOLD
Takuro Shibata was born in 1972 in Osaka and has a degree in Chemistry from Doshisha University before moving to Shigaraki. There he worked for the Tanikan Pottery, which was in effect a commercial operation producing Shigaraki ware. Originally taken on because of his scientific background, Takuro immediately became interested in producing pottery himself and learnt much during his 3 years with the company. This together with learning about the anagama kiln from the Shigaraki potter, Hajimu Kato, resulted in Takuro setting up his own studio and kiln in 1999. Takuro first showed his teabowls at the Harlequin Gallery in January 2002. Although these had been made in Shigaraki, he had begun an eighteen month residency in the USA by the time of the exhibition. In the States he worked in several locations, furthering his knowledge of wood-firing and even managed to get a few examples of his work over to the Harlequin Gallery. Takuro returned to Shigaraki in 2003 and sent teabowls from there for the Harlequin Gallery “Teabowl” exhibition in March 2005. That summer saw him move once again to the States to work in Seagrove, North Carolina, where he is still based. Since moving in North Carolina, Takuro has being seeking out local clays and materials, which are used for much of the work in the 2007 Harlequin Gallery exhibition. These have either been fired in the noborigama (wood-fired climbing kiln) at the North Carolina Pottery Center or in the new anagama at STARworks, where Takuro is based, that Hajimu Kato went over to help build last year.
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