Pottery and ceramics in Taiwan were largely pedestrian and uninspired right up until January 1981, when an R.O.C.-Japan ceramics exhibit at the National Museum of History pointed up the prevailing backwardness and conventionality in the genre. That discovery triggered the development of contemporary pottery and ceramics in Taiwan and spurred many people to take up the art or to open workshops of their own.
早期台灣的陶製品沒有鮮明的藝術動機，純粹是實用生活器皿，直到民國七十年元月，在台北歷史博物館舉辦的「中日陶瓷交流展」，對照出台灣陶藝的保守、落後，才啟迪了台灣現代陶藝的發展，帶動習陶的風氣，個人陶藝工作室亦紛紛設立。