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This exhibition is an attempt to mix and fertilize the exchange between Great Britain and Korea.
British crafts shows as Collect and Chelsea Craft Show displayed curatorial endeavours
that encouraged London to be the centre of artistic diversity and leading the design and arts industry.
Similar efforts are happening in Korea with World Ceramics Biennales and competitions
by the World Ceramics Exposition Foundation.
It has effectively acquired its stance since its foundation
in 2001 through enormous investment in engage international artists and scholars.
One could recognize its need to establish on-going events in London.
Here presents the important ceramic artists who demonstrate the great tradition of British crafts,
starting from 'father of British Potter's tradition' Bernard Leach to exciting contemporary British ceramic artists.
Bernard Leach
Bernard Leach's influence on British Studio Pottery is immeasurable;
his involvement in the Japanese Mingei movement was equally as important.
Leach's drawings, paintings, ceramics and writings appear alongside those of Japanese and Korean artists in many Private and Museum collections.
In an address to the UNESCO conference in Paris called 'Potter's Voices East and West' he said,
"Japan is a potter’s heaven: all the waves of Far Eastern culture have broken upon its shores.
Pots are understood through the senses: from the outset people bought even mine.
The background of Zen and Tea provided a highly developed perceptivity of truth and beauty, and there was no hard dividing line between arts and crafts.
Lying behind Japanese cultural life were magnificent achievements of Chinese and Korean potters of the Sung,
T'ang, and Yi dynasties setting the noblest standard the world has known.
These pots first emerged in quantity from Chinese and Korean tombs during the construction of their railways in those years which I spent in the Far East.
It was from them we obtained our main inspiration,
and in later years it was from this original source that the contemporary and international 'stoneware movement' derived.
Sooner or later great achievements are recognized, raise standards and open the way to new creative work."
The Traditional yet Contemporary Exhibition is to recognize this 'great achievements'
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