About
Noe Kuremoto’s ceramics are more than objects—they’re contemporary echoes of ancient talismans, evoking Japan’s Dogū, Haniwa, and Komainu. Sculpted entirely by hand, her forms channel mythology and ancestral memory, reimagined for a world increasingly divorced from ritual and meaning.
Born in Osaka and trained in conceptual art at Central Saint Martins, Kuremoto once shed tradition for modernity. But life—its ruptures and reckonings—pulled her back to myth. Her sculptures now stand as meditations on protection, resilience, and the quiet power of the past.
In her work, clay becomes a vessel for survival wisdom. These aren’t nostalgic gestures—they’re living language, shaped to meet today’s spiritual dislocation. “Facts aren’t wisdom,” she says. “Wisdom is what keeps you standing when life cracks open.”
Now based in London and building a studio deep in Lithuanian forestland, Kuremoto continues to shape a practice rooted in care, cosmology, and maternal strength. Her work doesn’t just look back—it points forward, toward a future re-enchanted by ancient truths.
