{
  "name": "Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Winners 2017–2026",
  "description": "Source: Fax Office 1987 reference archive. https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/loewe-craft-prize-winners",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "source": "https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/loewe-craft-prize-winners",
  "records": [
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "name": "Ernst Gamperl",
      "nationality": "Germany",
      "title": "Tree of Life 2",
      "medium": "Wood",
      "blurb": "Vessel turned from a single fallen oak storm-felled in the Bavarian Alps. Inaugural winner of the prize.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Madrid"
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "name": "Jennifer Lee",
      "nationality": "United Kingdom",
      "title": "Pale, shadowed speckled traces, fading ellipse, bronze specks, tilted shelf",
      "medium": "Ceramics",
      "blurb": "Hand-built coil pots in oxide-stained porcelain. Lee was the first ceramicist to take the prize.",
      "ceremonyCity": "London"
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "name": "Genta Ishizuka",
      "nationality": "Japan",
      "title": "Surface Tactility #11",
      "medium": "Urushi lacquer",
      "blurb": "Sphere-clustered lacquer sculpture built up in dozens of layers of natural urushi over a foam armature.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Tokyo"
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "name": "Fanglu Lin",
      "nationality": "China",
      "title": "She",
      "medium": "Textile",
      "blurb": "Knotted cotton wall piece drawn from the Bai people's traditional tie-dye methods in Yunnan province. Two special mentions: David Corvalán (Chile) and Takayuki Sakiyama (Japan).",
      "ceremonyCity": "Paris"
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "name": "Dahye Jeong",
      "nationality": "South Korea",
      "title": "A Time of Sincerity",
      "medium": "Horsehair",
      "blurb": "Vessel woven from horsehair using a 500-year-old Korean hat-making technique. Jeong was the first Korean winner.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Seoul"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "name": "Eriko Inazaki",
      "nationality": "Japan",
      "title": "Metanoia",
      "medium": "Ceramics",
      "blurb": "Porcelain sculpture accreted from thousands of miniscule clay forms over a period of months. Surface reads as both coral and frost.",
      "ceremonyCity": "New York"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "name": "Andrés Anza",
      "nationality": "Mexico",
      "title": "I only know what I have seen",
      "medium": "Ceramics",
      "blurb": "Spiked clay column whose surface protrusions read as both fossil and antenna. First Latin American winner of the prize.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Paris"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "name": "Kunimasa Aoki",
      "nationality": "Japan",
      "title": "Realm of Living Things 19",
      "medium": "Terracotta",
      "blurb": "Compressed terracotta form built up in stacked layers, anamorphic across viewing angles. The Loewe jury cited its dialogue between geological time and human handprint.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Madrid"
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "name": "Jongjin Park",
      "nationality": "South Korea",
      "title": "Strata of Illusion",
      "medium": "Welded steel",
      "blurb": "Steel basket woven from welded rebar, treating an industrial material as if it were fibre. The patronage Loewe runs better than any house in fashion right now.",
      "ceremonyCity": "Singapore",
      "dispatchSlug": "jongjin-park-wins-loewe-craft-prize-with-steel-basket"
    }
  ]
}