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Meet Bizen_Kazuya (Kaz)

3 Full Day : 14/15/16 November

Time - 10 am to 4.30 pm

Price - 585 (inc 21% tax)

(including : lunch, 20 kilograms clay, 

light snacks, coffee/tea, lots of learning

and lots of fun

Small cozy group of 10 participants hence spots are limited and based on first come first serve 

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If you wish to be on the waiting list, kindly send me an e-mail at pheona.claytoplate.com
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Kazuya Ishida is a ceramicist from Bizen, Japan, known for his work in traditional Bizen-style pottery. He was born into a family of potters in Bizen, which is one of the six 'ancient kilns' and is famous for its traditional unglazed, high temperature-fired pottery. Kazuya 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, including a residency at the Leach Pottery;

learning different styles of pottery before establishing his own studio in Bizen.

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Kazuya makes sculptures and vases featuring his distinctive spiralling marks,

created with a technique inspired by a teenage love for breakdancing.

His work involves throwing a basic cylindrical form on a potter’s wheel, which is then followed by a process of carefully etching lines onto the surface, and then throwing it on the wheel again,

thereby warping both the form and its motifs.

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From 2015 to 2018, while teaching his skills and Japanese culture to students at Oxford University,

he also absorbed the techniques and aesthetic sensibilities of modern Western art

which he then began introducing into his own Bizen Pottery. Rahou, which means ‘spiral,’

is an outstanding technique expressing the beauty of centrifugal force in Bizen Pottery,

and was inspired by his experience in the UK.

Day 1

Basic technique of pottery

  • Spiral wedging

  • Basic throwing skills with some Japanese techniques such as Sake bottle and tea bowl

  • Basic spiral throwing skills

Day 2

  • Streching technique with colored stain (optional)

  • Spiral technique next level using other options and different tools

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Day 3

  • How to trim/clean the bottoms

  • Demonstration for big pots

  • Talk and slide for Wood firing

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