Wood you? Yutaka Minegishi
 RMIT University, Gold & Silversmithing Master class
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Yutaka Minegishi. Photo: Arne Schultz​

Map reference number: 78

RMIT University
Object Based Practice
Gold & Silversmithing Studio
Lvl 1, Bldg 2, 124 La Trobe St,
Melbourne 

28 – 31 August
Mon–Thu 9.30am–4.30pm

Opening: 31 August, 4.30–5.30pm

Artist/s: Yutaka Minegishi

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A four-day masterclass in which participants will use wood as a starting point. The objective will be to carve a ring for the hand and to delve into this process. Using the porous and structural properties of wood participants will work using essential processes to explore contemporary forms. Goldsmiths build and model using metal components, sections and constituents to join and build form and structure. In this Masterclass, Yutaka Minegishi will lead participants to use wood as a material and work only with the reductive and subtractive techniques to produce form by carving and stripping back material. The objective is to reach a unique and unrepeatable form, a work that could not be visualised before beginning. Participants will explore intuitively with wood to look for unexpected details, lines and forms in their own finished pieces and to explore their personal response to the material.

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a.-b. Yutaka Minegishi. Photo: Arne Schultz

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About the Artist

Yutaka Minegishi studied metal craft at Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry in Tokyo before moving to Germany in 1995 as a guest student of Fachhochschule, Pforzheim and then as a Masters student of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. Minegishi has exhibited internationally since 1995 and his work can be found in the permanent collections of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Museum Ceskeho Raje, Czech Republic and the Stichting Francoise van den Bosch, Amstelveen.