Joshua Fitton - Forest
Joshua Fitton - Forest
TITLE: Forest
YEAR: 2024
MEDIUM: Japanese ink and English stoneware plate pieces (“Indian Tree”, 1980) on cotton paper
SIZE: 76 × 56 cm (paper size)
Joshua Fitton (b. 1987, Bath, England) is a visual artist and fashion designer. He received his MA in Architecture from the University of Lincoln in 2012, following which he pursued a brief career in architecture before founding a menswear atelier called Atelier Fitton, which he continues to operate in The Zhongshan Building, Kuala Lumpur. As an artist, he is known for his work with ceramics, having spent some time in 2019 learning from a raku specialist, and showing a hundred pieces of ceramic eggs for his debut solo exhibition, What Dreams May Come, at The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur, in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the Tiger Uncage Fund to create a large sculpture crafted out of broken porcelain pieces that was later exhibited at APW Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. In 2024, he was a participating artist in the second edition of 1000 Tiny Artworks by Artists of SEA at The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur. Shadows in Time is his second solo exhibition to date.