*anese artist and metalworker

This article is about a *anese metalworker. For the *anese composer, see Junko Mori (composer). Propagation Project, forged steel sculpture by Junko Mori, 2006, Honolulu Museum of Art

Junko Mori (森 純子, Mori Junko) (born 1974) is a *anese artist and metalworker born in Yokohama, *an.

Career

Mori graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA, in three-dimensional design. She then worked as a welder in a factory for nine months. From 1998 to 2000 she studied silversmithing and metalwork at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She then spent two years as artist-in-residence at Liverpool Hope University. In 2005 she was among the eight metalworkers short-listed for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize in metal.

Work and holdings

Mori makes complex sculptures of hand-forged steel or silver. Her Propagation Project is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Other public collections holding examples of her work include the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Manchester Art Gallery, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the National Museum Cardiff, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the National Museums Liverpool and the Ulster Museum.

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