About - Yusuke Yamamoto

Statement
My work is a manifestation of my everyday observations. Everything that I experience in life has a potential to be translated into my practice.
For example, from the smells in a green dense forest, the noise and colour during a trip to the country or to the city, the patterns of a mathematical expression on a blackboard.
As a result this stimulates my curiosity and creative obsession which leads to its own story of silver.
Once I have found the essence of my narrative then I begin to jot down these ideas onto silver with my individual style of sculptured and chased silver forms, exploring movement and pattern through distinctive surface texture and hammered marks.
My everyday observations allow me to continually evolve and reflect within my practise.
CV
2000-2004
BA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Industrial, Interior & Craft Design
2021
Contemporary British silversmith, chasing course with Rod Kelly
2017
Contemporary British silversmith precious box making course with Ray Walton
2015
Goldsmiths’ Company Master Craftsman Internships 2015 with Malcolm Appleby
Glasgow School of Art, Visiting Lecturer, Silversmithing and Jewellery
Glasgow School of Art, guest speaker
2014
Musashino Art University, guest speaker
Medal team for Commonwealth Game 2014
Glasgow School of Art, teaching assistant
Glasgow School of Art, guest speaker
2012-2013
Glasgow School of Art, Artist in Residence
Glasgow School of Art, guest speaker
2010-2012
Work for Hiroshi Suzuki, Japan
2005-2010
Musashino Art University, Industrial, Interior & Craft Design, Research Associate Metalsmithing
2004
Musashino Art University, Industrial, Interior & Craft Design, Workshop assistant, Metalsmithing
Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Colloquy, Makers Guild Wales Gallery at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Colloquy, Mary E. Black Gallery, Canada
Collect 2022, Somerset house, London
2021
Collect 2021, online, Ruthin Craft Centre
PINNING OUR HOPES, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
ON THE TABLE, Oxford ceramics gallery, Oxford
Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2020
‘A JAPANESE DESIGN’ The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Goldsmiths’ Fair on digital
Aelwyd, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff,Wales
2019
Aelwyd, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Collect 2019, Saatchi Gallery, London
Goldsmiths’ North, Sheffield
Goldsmiths’ Fair 2019, London
HammerClub 2019 : Renewal, Dock Street Studios,Dundee
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018, Silvermuseum , Freiberg , Germany
2018
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018, ZILVERMUSEUM Schoonhoven Nederland
MINIATURISTS ,The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh.
Elements , Lyon & Turnbull , Edinburgh
Goldsmiths fair, Goldsmiths hall, London
Made for the Table,The Holburne Museum,Bath ,/RUTHIN CRAFT CENTRE,Wales
Lasting Impressions ,NATIONAL CRAFT GALLERY – Kilkenny,Ireland
RUTHIN CRAFT CENTRE,Wales
Collect 2018 Saatchi Gallery, London
2017
A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION,The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh.
The New Abstraction Exhibition, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
PRECIOUS MYSTERIES, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
‘Made for the Table’, The Harley Gallery
Inspired 2017, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2016
Inspired 2016, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London
18th Silver Triennale international, Hanau, Germany
2015
Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
The Silversmith’s Art Made in Britain today, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Modern Masters [Metal & Jewellery], The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
International Jewellery London 2015, The Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design stand at Olympia, London
Summer Exhibition, The Contemporary Silver Gallery, West Sussex
The Craftsmanship & Design Awards Exhibition 2015, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2014
Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Summer Exhibition, The Contemporary Silver Gallery, West Sussex
Exhibition “Dialogue with nature”, Schwäbisch Gmünd / Germany
Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER Silver Schools, The Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland
Art for Care, Charity fundraising event, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
AIR 16, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Artists in Residence from Glasgow School of Art exhibition, Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art
Contemporary Silver at Drapers’ Hall, Drapers’ Hall, London
The Craftsmanship & Design Awards Exhibition 2014, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2013
Solo Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Yusuke Yamamoto and Satoko Takemura GSA Exhibitions, Mackintosh building The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
AIR Exhibition, Light House, Glasgow
The Craftsmanship & Design Awards Exhibition2013, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2011
Christmas Show, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Under 50 Exhibition, Gallery Sakuranoki, Karuizawa, Nagano Japan
2010
Exhibition of Research Associates, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
Exhibition of Research Associates, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
Wonderful Exhibition, Gallery Sakuranoki, Karuizawa, Nagano Japan
ART FAIR TOKYO 2009, Tokyo International Forum B2, Exhibition Hall, Gallery Kisimoto, Tokyo
ART FEIR TOBI 2009, Tokyo Bijyutu Culb, Gallery Kisimoto, Tokyo
2008
Exhibition of Research Associates, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
Group Show, Onishi Gallery, New York
SOFA-The International Expositions of Sculpture Objects &
Functional Art , Park Avenue Armory・ART MIYA, New York
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Jyu-ichigatu, Ginza, Tokyo
ART FAIR TOKYO 2008, Tokyo International Forum B2 Exhibition Hall, Gallery Kisimoto, Tokyo
2007
Exhibition of Research Associates, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
Exhibition of The Work of Metal part3, KEY Gallery & Gallery Seika, Kyoubasi Tokyo
Portrait picture exhibition of pet, Gallery egakukan, Nisisinbasi Tokyo
Solo Exhibition, Gyallery Jyu-ichigatu, Ginza, Tokyo
2006
Exhibition of Research Associates, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
Ceramic & Metal Works, Gallery-ES, Aoyama, Tokyo
Exhibition of The Work of Metal part2, Gallery-52,Iidabasi,Tokyo
2005
The 41th Kanagawa Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery,Kanagawa
RESYCL’art 2005, EXPO2005 AICHI, Aichi Japan
Solo Exhibition, Gyallery Garou, Yokohama, Kanagawa Japan
Exhibition of The Work of Metal, Gallery-52,Iidabasi,Tokyo
2004
Group Exhibition, GALERIA RASEN, Kunitachi, Tokyo
Degree show 2004, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2021
Goldsmiths Craft and Design Awards,Silver award in the 3D Silversmiths Design, United Kingdom
2019
HammerClub 2019, 4th prize, European Silversmiths Forum Dundee United Kingdom
2018
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 shortlisted
2015
Goldsmiths’ Company Master Craftsman Internships
Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards, Chaser senior silver prize
2013
The P & O Makower Trust Silver Commission for Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales 2013, Shortlist
The Clothworkers’ Company, London
The Goldsmiths’ Company, London
New College, Oxford