Liu Kunting
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of seven he began learning the craft from his grandfather and his father, and under the strong artistic influence of his elders he resolved to devote himself to the firing craft of Tongguan kiln ceramics.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1963 in Changsha City, Hunan Province. He is a national representative bearer of Changsha Kiln Tongguan Ceramic Firing Craftsmanship, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a senior arts and crafts artist. He has a solid grounding in the craft and both carries on tradition and breaks new ground; he shows exceptional sensitivity in clay-figure modelling and design, and his works are distinctively conceived. While creating more than eight hundred works, he has also devoted himself to inheriting and extending the Changsha Tongguan kiln tradition, taking part in numerous major exhibitions and in the dissemination of Tongguan kiln techniques in the Taiwan region of China and in the United States, France, Japan, Australia and the Republic of Korea.
Honors & Recognition
In April 2015 he was named one of the first model workers of Wangcheng District, Changsha City.
References & Archival Sources
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