J a s o n xW a s o n
e-mail : jason@wason64.freeserve.co.uk
telephone : within UK (01736) 787694 / outside UK +44 1736 787694
 
E x h i b i t i o n s
2008 Gallery St Ives, Tokyo, Japan : Mixed show of Leach Potters
2008 London Art Fair : Represented by Lemon Street Gallery
2007 Austin Desmond Fine Art : London : Xmas mixed show
2007

The Circle is Unbroken, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro : See work at www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk
Also featured on www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall
2006 Austin Desmond Summer Show, London
2006 Artonomy Fine Art : Object and Still Life Group Exhibition : Truro
2006 Harlequin Gallery, pots from Cornwall : London
2005 Kusakabe Folk Museum : Gifu, Japan
2005 Maruzen Department Store : Nagoya, Japan
2005 Seto City Art Museum : Japan
2004 Collect : Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2004 Jason Wason Ceramics : Austin Desmond Fine Art, Bloomsbury, London
2003 Body and Form : Joanna Bird Galllery, London
2003 Walker Art Gallery : Liverpool
2002 Gallery Bizan : Seto Shi, Aichi, Japan
2002 Ceramica International : Including Bernard Leach, Janet leach. Penlee Museum, Penzance, Cornwall
2002 Potters from the Treasure House : Jason Wason, Yasuo Terada. Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2002 Seto City Cultural Centre : Aichi Prefecture, Japan : Exhibition of work made at two month residency
2002 SOFA, Expo : Sculptural Objects and Functional Art : Chicago, USA represented by Joanna Bird Gallery
2001 British Studio Ceramics Works from the New Millenium : The Clay Studio Gallery, Philadephia, USA
2001 SOFA, Expo : Sculptural Objects and Functional Art : Chicago, USA represented by Joanna Bird Gallery
2001 Japanese Connections : Seto Glass and Ceramic centre, Japan
2000 6 Chapel Row Gallery : Bath
2000 Seto studio Japan : Worked for two months with Yasuo Terada at Seto, preparing and firing anagama kiln
2000 Japanese Connections : C Square Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2000 Jason Wason, David Leach, Shinsaka Hamada and Tatsuzo Shimaoka : Dartington Hall, Devon
1999 Austin Desmond Fine Art : London
1999 Cobra and Bellamy : Chelsea, London
1998 Running Ridge Gallery : Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
1998 Austin Desmond Fine Art : London
1997 Six Chapel Row : Bath
1997 Joanna Bird Gallery : London with Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, Tatsuzo Shimaoko, Lucy Rie
1996 Playing with Fire : Austin Desmond Fine Art, Bloomsbury Square, London
1995 Ten Pieces : Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall
1995 Japanese Connections : Touring Show
1995 Textiles and Ceramics : Ruffoed Art Centre, Nottingham
1995 Cornish Crafts Association : Helston, Cornwall; Royal Cornwall Museum,  Truro
1995 Gallery Gilbert, Dorchester
1995 Gallerie Inart : Amsterdam, Holland
1995 Boymans Van Beuningen Museum : Rotterdam, Holland
1995 Vincent Gallery : Exeter
1994 Raku Exhibition : Tate Gallery St.Ives, Cornwall
1994 Andrew Usiskin Gallery : London
1993 Excavation Series : Austin Desmond Fine Art : London
1992 Maruzen Department Store : Tokyo, Japan
1990 Playing with Fire : Austin Desmond Fine Art : Bloomsbury Square, London
1990 National Museum and Gallery : Liverpool
 
A p p o i n t m e n t s
2005 June Appointed member of committee for Seihoji Ancient Kiln Park, Aich, Japan
2005 March International Artist in Residence, Seto City, Aichi, Japan
2002 International artist in residence
Seto City Art and Glass Centre, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
2002 Appointed project officer for Ceramica
International Festival of Ceramics, run by St. Ives International, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, Newlyn Orion Gallery, and Truro Museum. Project was to invite Yasuo Terada to UK to construct straw fired pit kiln, at Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Penzance and to fire it with students and potters from West Cornwall
1994 Appointed project officer for Japan 2001
Responsible for inviting Yasuo Terada from Seto, Japan, to visit UK and build a charcoal fired raku kiln similar in design to that which Bernard Leach first encountered in 1918. The kiln was built at Leach Pottery , St. Ives, UK. Together we gave workshops on raku firing, Japanese and European style.
 
P u b l i c  C o l l e c t i o n s
2002 Work purchased for permanent collection at Togei Messe , Mashiko, Japan
2002 Work to go on permanent display at Bizan Tobo, Seto Shi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
 
P r i z e s za n d za w a r d s
2005 South West Arts Council grant to attend and work for three months at Seihoji Ancient Kiln Park Festival,Seto, Japan,as international guest @ EXPO 2005
1998 South West Arts Council Grant to travel and study ceramics in New Mexico
1997 Funded by British Council to do lecture tour throughout Israel, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
1992 Installation for British High Commission, Dhaker, Bangledesh
1990 South West Arts Council Development Award to open European Connections, Holland in particular
 
P u b l i c a t i o n s
Ceramic Review - Profile - Jason Wason - July Aug 2006
Raku, second edition, Tim Andrews, published by AC Black
Journey to St Ives England - Kinship Beyond East & West - Published by Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art
Mimbres Potters - An article written by J. Wason, Ceramic Review, 18
Crafts - Exhibition review Six Chapel Row, Bath. edition 167
Raku - A review of contemporary work, by Tim Andrews, published by A. C Black
Leach Legacy - St Ives and Its Influence, by Marion Whybrow, Published by Sanson and Co
Ceramic Review - Exhibition Review, No.173, September 1998
'In Their Element' - A film by Television South West 1992
Dictionary of British Potters - By Pat Carter, Scholar Press