(Photo:
Hakka TV)
Chinese
Name: 朱邦雄
Born: 1945
Birthplace:
Kaohsiung County (Northern Taiwan)
Born
in 1945, Dr. Chu Pan-hsiung is a Hakka from Kaohsiung’s Meinong District in
southern Taiwan. He graduated from National Taiwan Academy of Arts -- now
National Taiwan University of Arts -- in 1967. After graduating, he has been
engaged in design and creative jobs in well-known companies at home and abroad
for more than 30 years. His professional experiences in industrial design,
landscape design, interior design and special artistic creation strengthened
the artist’s backgrounds in industry, science, design, art, and humanities.
Later, in order to engage himself in ceramic art work, he studied ceramics and
chemical engineering for many years.
Because
of his knowledge of various fields, innovative design and creative experiences,
and a passion for local culture, Chu brought the ceramic industry back to his
hometown of Meinong in 1987 and founded the "Meinong Kiln." He also
set up exhibition halls to promote ceramic wall public art, and since then he
has promoted the transformation of culture and art into the tourism industry.
For more than 30 years, he has led the art team of Meinong Kiln to produce many
large-scale public art works on pottery walls throughout Taiwan, which have
been well received by all walks of life at home and abroad.
Chu
focuses on pottery wall art and uses ceramics to make creations on walls. He
said that because large-scale public art, such as installation art, must take
up a lot of space, he did not want his works to be reduced to small, cramped
space, so he chose to combine art with the walls of buildings to present
another type of public art.
Mr.
Chu’s first large-scale pottery wall work was "Inheritance," which he
designed for National Chengchi University in 1990. Recalling this first
experience, Chu said he stood in front of the wall, trembling from the bottom
of his heart. He didn't know if he could succeed and what the final result
would look like. Today, you can see his pottery wall creations on campuses, in
airports and Kaohsiung City’s subway station.
(Photo: CNA)
In
2003, Mr. Chu was awarded the title of Doctor of Fine Arts by Griffith
University in Australia. Since then, he has further brought the ceramic wall
art into the academic halls of schools, doing his part in cultivating talent.
In addition, he was invited to give lectures on art and humanities at various
government agencies, schools at all levels, and major companies in Taiwan, and
was hired as a guest professor of several famous universities in China.