Inside a 250-year-old Kyoto kiln, where glaze and sculptural form become vessels like objects of art

In this episode, we filmed the making process and interview of ceramic artist Hiroaki Kiyomizu, who is based in Gojozaka, Kyoto.

■ Ceramic Artist | Hiroaki Kiyomizu
Born in Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-Gojo area, Hiroaki Kiyomizu is a ceramic artist working at Rokubey Kiln. After graduating from Osaka University’s School of Human Sciences, he studied at Kyoto Prefectural College of Ceramic Technology and the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology before joining Rokubey Kiln in 2016. Having once worked as a banker, he entered the world of ceramics at the age of 28 and began searching for his own expression while facing the history of a kiln that has continued for generations.While preserving the usability of vessels, he explores the strength of glaze effects, a sense of mass, gravity toward the center, and the energy that moves from the inside to the outer surface. Driven by the desire to create work that can stand beside past generations of Rokubey, he continues to transform pressure into creative force and shape his own world through ceramics.