Position:
Curator of Japanese Art, Ashmolean Museum
Faculty / College Address:
Ashmolean Museum
Email:
clare.pollard@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Arts of Japan, particularly Meiji ceramics and decorative arts
Current Projects:
- Creating 2 new galleries of Japanese art as part of the Ashmolean Museum's current redevelopment project
Recent Publications:
- 'Zen Mind: the development of Zen Buddhism', in Zen Mind, Zen Brush: Japanese ink paintings from the Gitter-Yelen collection (Art Gallery of NSW, 2006)
- '"Gorgeous with glitter and gold": Miyagawa Kozan and the Role of Satsuma Export Ware in the Early Meiji Ceramic Industry', in Past and Present: the Metamorphosis of Japanese Art in the Nineteenth Century (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
- 'Marvels or aberrations? Early products of the Kozan studio', in TAASA Review, vol. 14 no. 4, December 2005.
- Master Potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916) and his workshop (Oxford: OUP, 2003)
- The Art of Hokusai - Masterpieces of Japanese Printing in the Chester Beatty Library (Dublin: TownHouse, 2003)
- The Chester Beatty Library, with Michael Ryan, Elaine Wright, Charles Horton (London: The CBL in association with Scala Publishers, 2001)
