Yuko Fukuba Johnsson is a practicing ceramic artist from Tokyo, based in Hong Kong. She uses ceramics as a medium to create works under the theme of Memory Containers. 

For her, memory means a combination of facts, including time and place, together with qualia, subjective experiences with the senses. She is fascinated by ceramics as a medium of “containment” with the long human history that people have been making and using ceramics not only for practical use but also symbolically to “contain” something within to materialise the invisible, like beliefs and wishes.

The flexible or fragile clay body and mixed minerals change its properties drastically into solid and permanent once it is fired. The long-making process gives her enough time to recollect the moment she is putting into the work. Ceramics is an accurate medium for her to create containers for ephemeral memories and future histories, coalescing her qualia into them to give the invisible a permanent form to preserve them.

2024    Augustus Owen Foundation Award

2024    Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship

2024    Boon Lee Award

2024    Mooroom Award

2024    The Pottery Workshop Award

2024    RMIT Dean's Award for Excellence

2024    RMIT Dean's List

2024    SPSS Outstanding Performance Scholarship (HKSAR Government)

2024    Ephemeral (Group Exhibition / Hong Kong Art Centre Pao Gallery)

2023    Collectible Art Fair (Hong Kong Art Centre Pao Gallery)

2023    Material and Physics 2 (Group Exhibition / Mooroom Gallery)

2024 Guest Presenter for the panel discussion at Jian Bibo's World exhibition opening in Ronchang, China