Bisui Ishikawa

Bisui Ishikawa, born in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature in 2015. In 2021, she started her training at the Technical Support Center for Ceramics of Tochigi Prefecture and became an assistant to Koichi Onozawa at the same time.

Bisui Ishikawa has been self-employed since 2023 and produces pottery in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. In the same year, she had her first exhibition at the pottery fair in Mashiko.

Bisui Ishikawa turns her delicate, light bowls on the potter's wheel and shapes the rims as desired. This shaping, which depends on Bisui's mood and the shape of the day, creates curves in the bowl that suit the bowl and make the bowls unique. Bisui turns her vases on the potter's wheel, but the vases whose shape is not that of a perfect circle are made by hand. Bisui refers to the time when she is not at the potter's wheel as free time. So she makes handmade vases in her spare time.

The kanji "bisui" in the artist's name can also be read as "slumber" in Japan. It is like the world one sees in the middle of sleep, between dreams and reality. Between dreams and reality - like Bisui's dreamy bowls and vases - very real.