Recent exhibitions

2003

Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 8th solo exhibition at Keio

Gaku Gallery, Tokyo, solo show

Medici Gallery, London

V&A Museum, London. Crafts Council shop

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Nature in Art, Glos. Art residency

Coombe Gallery, Devon. Exhibition with painter Gerry Dudgeon

Body and Form at Joanna Bird

Lecture, Japan Society Southern Counties

Beaux Arts, Bath

Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo

Art Salon Kogen, Nagoya

Ceramic Collection Aberystwyth purchase

Lectures: London Institute, Kingston University

2004

Scottish Gallery 'Plates'

'Collect' at V&A Museum

Affordable Art Fair, London

Celf Gallery, Wales, 'Jugs'

Garden Door. Gallery, London, solo

Crafts at Kenwood, London, English Heritage

Joanna Bird 'The Spirit of the Maker'

Beaux Arts, Bath, solo

Nature in Art, Glos., residency

Yew Tree Gallery, Penzance, solo 'Wild and Free'

Woodbury Studio Gallery

'Garden of Delights', Nature in Art

2005

'Collect' at V&A Museum

Kamakura Kogei Gallery, Japan

Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo

Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London

Green Gallery, New Zealand

Haddenham Gallery, Ely, with Peter Cavaciuti

Broadway Modern, Cotswolds

Cecilia Colman Gallery, London

Scottish Gallery 'Gardens and Birds'

Rufford Ceramics Centre, Nottingham

2006

Keio Department Store. Tokyo, solo

'Collect' at V&A Museum with Crafts Council

Beaux Arts, Bath, solo

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, solo

'Pichets Extraordinaire', Terra Viva, France

Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

Residency at Nature in Art, Glos.

Teaching at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon

St. David's Hall. Cardiff

2007

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, solo

Yew Tree Gallery, 'Uprising'

Teaching at Coombe Farm Studios, Devon

Residency & teaching at Nature in Art, Glos.

New Ashgate Gallery, solo

2008

Keio Department Store , Tokyo, solo

Born in Nottingham, Jill Fanshawe Kato studied pottery at the school of Yosei Itaka and at Karatsu Pottery School in Tokyo. Her work is inspired by nature and her travels in Asia and Brazil. She now produces functional pottery for Japanese and Western use and creates sculptural and architectural ceramics. Jill has had many exhibitions in Japan, Britain, France, Germany and the USA. She taught pottery at Goldsmiths College and lectures widely on Japanese ceramics.