Joe Isanako 鯨虎じょう

Joe Isanako was born in 1994 in Tokyo, Japan. In 2018, she graduated from the prestigious Tama Art University and has been praised several times for her talent. Her work comes from experimenting and observing how materials interact. Joe Isanako builds her work by mixing, colouring and stacking clay in small pieces. In the process, she often uses other materials such as glass, metal, stones and other elements from nature such as seashells, seawater and leaves and nuts. Anyone looking at her work will notice that it has little to do with traditional Japanese ceramics and is surprising and refreshing precisely because of this. It is this intentional integration between clay, nature and time and the artist offering a variety of expressions and landscapes in Joe Isanako's sculptures that has that refreshing quality of completely erasing the image that comes to mind when you think of ceramics. Joe Isanako is young but promising. She has won several awards , and participated in many exhibitions. She also works as an assistant at the Ceramics Lab at her alma mater, Tama Art University.

Orange-blue, 2017 - Tama Art University