SpotLight: Kazuya Ishida | Artist Interview | Ceramics Masterclass | The Living Light Art Studio
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- We are so excited to launch our second film in a new series discovering artists in all fields of art - SpotLight. For this episode, we sit down with ceramicist Kazuya Ishida from Bizen Japan for an enlightening conversation, taking us through his experience and insights as a ceramic artist and an educator.
Masterclass in The Living Light Art Studio (Hong Kong):
2024 January - Rahou: Master Class in Spontaneous Throwing
2023 March - Spontaneous Throwing with Kazuya Ishida
Kazuya Ishida was born into a family of potters in Bizen Japan. Bizen is one of the six ‘ancient kilns’ and is famous for its traditional unglazed high-temperature-fired bizen-style pottery.
He uses wood-fired noborigama (multiple chamber climbing kiln) and anagama (single chamber climbing kiln). He trained with Jun Isezaki (a Living National Treasure in Bizen) for four years, followed by time spent in the UK learning different styles of pottery, before he established his own studio in Bizen. Invited into the Anagama Project run by the University of Oxford, he has been a lead resident potter teaching kiln making, firing, and pottery making, while lecturing about his craft.
He makes sculptures and vases featuring his distinctive spiraling marks, created with a technique inspired by a teenage love for breakdancing. In using limited materials (specifically, natural clay and natural ash glazes) in line with the Bizen tradition, he explores the rhythms and patterns of Nature.
The contemporary forms of his work are a reflection of the primordial, rippled textures and patterns of the ocean bed, the tectonic shifts of a cliff face, and the marks that ebbing tides have left on rock pools, pebbles, and seashells.
Stay tuned for our next film on another influential artist!
개인적인 경험을 작품에 쏟아넣어서 자신만의 세계를 창조하신점이 특별합니다. 굉장히 다이내믹한 흙의 정신을 표출하셨네요. 영감 받았습니다! 감사합니다
Thank you for your input and beautiful pieces
What a gorgeous guy and good communicator of the essenceof his work. Very authentic!
Can someone explain what Kazuya said in the beginning about handbuilding ? That you can do anything, but less unique. It went over my head. Thank you in advance ! Btw, amazing artist.
I think he may be referring to his surface texture/ pattern technique. So to say with hand building you could make any shapes and forms but you may be limited in the surface texture possibilities that can be achieved on the pottery wheel by adding the element of centrifugal force to the mix, i.e the result he gets from his technique. This is just my guess
HOWnice ! PERfect !
Fantástic!