READ, John Akatsu

1948 - ?

John Akatsu-Read was born in Cambridge in 1948. John studied at Cambridge School of Art 1965-1967; Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts for his B.A. Fine Art 1971; Open University Humanities B.A. degree course 1997-1999; University of East Anglia for a Master's in Culture & Communication 1999-2001 and PhD research 2001-2005. John Read has lived in Lebanon and Japan for ten years, and was a student of Sado, The Zen Art of Japanese Tea ceremony, which experience fundamentally informs his aesthetic and symbolic thinking. An architectural modelmaker 1973-1976, notably for the Burrell Museum, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, project of Sir Barry Gasson; studio assistant to artist and typographic designer Gordon House 1976-1982; English teacher in Tokyo, Japan 1977-1978, and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art 1979-1987. In 1984 he founded John Read Design to design and manufacture craft-made products such as lighting and furniture, supplied to the Futon Co. and various craft galleries including Primavera Cambridge. From around 1989 a resident in Eye, Suffolk and in In 2010, John Read established 'The Rock Horse Studio Press' to provide fine art studio printing and publishing services for artists and photographers and in 2012 one of the founders, with Nigel Oxley (1949-), of Prism Print International to promote cross-cultural exchange through fine art printmaking and has been chair and curator for eleven years. John Read has exhibited widely in the U.K., Europe and Japan including in Suffolk at the Edmund Gallery, Bury St Edmund's, Forum Gallery Hadleigh, Pond and Quay Galleries at Snape Maltings Galleries, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh and elsewhere.
Website: https://www.john-read.co.uk

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