Ion Fukazawa is a Sydney based designer who grew up in both Sydney and Tokyo. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW Arts and Design) with a Bachelor of Design in ceramics in 2014. During his studies, he was awarded a scholarship-funded position in an international collaborative student design studio. This project took him to the rainforests of Borneo to study the traditional crafts of the Iban people, expanding his interest in traditional ceramics techniques. Ion also studied conceptual and experimental design at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. After graduating he was awarded an Australia Council ArtStart Grant, allowing him to launch MUKUMONO Ceramics. Under this brand he worked with various resturants and clients around Australia, including Ester, Six Penny, Sony Australia, Sunda Dinning, Shobosho and more. After longs days in the studio making functional wares he decided to go to Japan to undertake a research program at The Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center (Ishoken), under Harumi Nakashima to follow his interests in Contemporary Kogei.
EDUCATION
2019 April – March ISHOKEN (Tajimi City Pottery Design and Research Institute) Ceramics Lab Course
2012 Sep – Jan Utrecht School of Art Exchange Program in The Netherlands
2010 – 2014 UNSW College of Fine Art Bachelor of Design
陶歴
1990 東京生まれ
1990 オーストラリア、シドニー 移住
2012 HKUユトレヒト芸術学校、オランダ 留学(半年)
2013 ニューサウスウェールズ大学 陶磁器デザイン科、オーストラリア 卒業
2020 多治見市陶磁器意匠研究所セラミックスラボ 修了
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Crafts Dialogue, Contemporary Craft Centre, Group Exhibition, Hong Kong
2021 Daiichi Art NY, Group Exhibition, New York, USA
2021 Jiemo Craft Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Shanghai, CHINA
2020 Galeire Ground (Kamp Studios) Los Angles, USA
2019 Tajimi to Tokyo, Shinjuku Apartment Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Kanazawa Kogei Art Fair, Tajimicity Cultural Atelier Gallery VOICE, Japan
2018 House of Plants, Group Show, Wedge Gallery Kinokuniya, Sydney
2018 Sony Alpha Awards 2018, Collaboration with Sony Australia Showcasing work in studio setting.
2016 Sydney Table, Collaboration with Ester Restaurant curated by Carriageworks for Vivid Sydney
展示
2018 ハウス オブ プラント、グループ展、ウェッジギャラリー紀伊国屋商店、シドニー
2019 やきものの現在土からなる形gallery VOICE ART EXHIBITION inグループ
2020 入選、61ファエンサ、イタリア
2020 TAJIMI TO TOKYO,グループ展(APARTMENT HOTEL SHINJUKU)、東京
2021 やきものの現在土からなる形 gallery VOICE ART EXHIBITION, 多治見
2021 Daiichi Art NY,グループ展 , ニューヨーク、アメリカ
2021 Contemporary Craft Centre Hong Kong, グループ展、香港
2021 Jiemo Craft Gallery, 個展, 上海
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Contemporary Ceramics – Ryota Aoki and Gentaro Yokoyama, ART MONTH SYDNEY, Co-curated with the Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Gallery
2016 Shingo Takeuchi Exhibition, Co-curated with Alison Groves, Cofa Space
ACHIEVEMENTS
2020 Grant from the Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art and Culture (現代美術文化振興財団), Japan
2016 Publication, Gourmet Traveller Sept 2016
2015 Launched MUKUMONO CERAMICS
2015 Artstart Grant, $10,000, Australian Council of the Arts
2014 Publication, Blog, Cfile, (cfileonline.org/video-ion-fukazawa-ceramic-riders)
2014 Publication, The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 52/1
2013 Exchange Scholarship, Utrecht School of Art, Netherlands