




Seungho Yang
Ball vase.
Dimensions 22x22 cm
Seungho Yang was born in 1955 in Taean, a village on the Yellow Sea in Korea. In 1974, he was introduced to ceramics and wood firing in the potters' village of Ichon, not far from the capital.
Trained at Dankook University in Seoul from 1978, Seungho Yang left for England in 1981. It was during this stay that he accidentally discovered his technique of surface cracks, by unfolding a crumpled piece of damp ceramic picked up on the ground. He is then challenged by the cracks in the room and the beauty of the earth in its natural state.
In 1983, he settled near La Borne, a potters' village in the center of France, whose tradition of wood firing dates back to the middle of the 16th century. There he built his own “Tongkama” oven.
His work is present in the public collections of numerous museums in Korea, France, France, France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania and England.