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ICON#2407 No.3
h480 w420 d200 (mm)
2024
Photo: Miki Nanbu
2024
Photo: Miki Nanbu
ICON#2501 No.1
h200 w370 d230 (mm)
2025
Photo: Miki Nanbu
2025
Photo: Miki Nanbu
ICON#2501 No.2
h200 w370 d230 (mm)
2025
Photo: Miki Nanbu
2025
Photo: Miki Nanbu
ICON#2407 No.1
h260 w420 d110 (mm)
2024
Photo: Miki Nanbu
2024
Photo: Miki Nanbu
ICON#2304 No.3
h260 w420 d110 (mm)
2023
Photo: Miki Nanbu
2023
Photo: Miki Nanbu
ICON#2304 No.2
h260 w420 d110 (mm)
2023
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
2023
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
ICON#2304 No.1
h190 w330 d130 (mm)
2023
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
2023
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
ICON#2206 No.1
h340 w260 d120 (mm)
2022
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
2022
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
ICON#2205 No.1
h320 w300 d150 (mm)
2022
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
2022
Photo: Kichiro Okamura
ICON#2202 No.3
h460 w180 d110 (mm)
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2202 No.2
h340 w330 d110 (mm)
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2202 No.1
h190 w320 d10 (mm)
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
2022
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2110 Stacking Group
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
MilanoVetro -35 2022 Purchasing Prize" Aldo Bellini" / The permanent collection of the Sforza Castle of Milan, Italy
Photo: Pippy Mount
MilanoVetro -35 2022 Purchasing Prize" Aldo Bellini" / The permanent collection of the Sforza Castle of Milan, Italy
ICON#2110 No.1
h180 w270 d110 (mm)
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2103 No.1
h280 w320 d120 (mm)
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2103 No.2
h300 w370 d110 (mm)
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
2021
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON #2011No.4
h240 w330 d110 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON #2011No.3
h190 w370 d150 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON #2010 Group
JamFactory GENERATE 2020
2020
Photo: Josh Geelen
Japanese artist Ayano Yoshizumi, has a strong interest in the use of glass as an expressive material to create multiple, sculptural still lifes. Informed by the broad scope of her undergraduate degree, Ayano strikes a unique balance between fine art, design and craft in her creation of both objets d’art and glass homewares.
In her ICON series of glass objects Ayano utilises glass blowing, kiln-forming and enamelling. She refers to space and colour; opaqueness and transparency; and the serendipitous nature of the hot-glass medium as her ‘primary tools’. These glass bricks produced in multiple sizes and colours, hold a sculptural aesthetic appeal, especially when grouped or stacked into different formations. Her colour palette is painterly, varying from bold orange to softer greens and colourless transparencies. Influenced by Fauvism in her expressive use of colour, Ayano complements the glass forms with the application of enamel paint.
2020
Photo: Josh Geelen
Japanese artist Ayano Yoshizumi, has a strong interest in the use of glass as an expressive material to create multiple, sculptural still lifes. Informed by the broad scope of her undergraduate degree, Ayano strikes a unique balance between fine art, design and craft in her creation of both objets d’art and glass homewares.
In her ICON series of glass objects Ayano utilises glass blowing, kiln-forming and enamelling. She refers to space and colour; opaqueness and transparency; and the serendipitous nature of the hot-glass medium as her ‘primary tools’. These glass bricks produced in multiple sizes and colours, hold a sculptural aesthetic appeal, especially when grouped or stacked into different formations. Her colour palette is painterly, varying from bold orange to softer greens and colourless transparencies. Influenced by Fauvism in her expressive use of colour, Ayano complements the glass forms with the application of enamel paint.
ICON#2010 No.1
h190 w270 d110 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2010 No.2
h180 w260 d110 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON #2010 No.3
h300 w330 d110 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON#2010 No.4
h190 w280 d160 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
ICON #2010 Group
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
The winning piece of the Tom Malone Prize 2021
About Ayano's winning piece, the Judges stated: “In selecting Ayano Yoshizumi’s work as the winner of the Tom Malone Prize 2021 we honour and support a young artist with an incredible creative future ahead of her. The trio of pieces that make up her composition ICON #2010 are an assured and convincing statement about the boldness required to truly capture the sensation of working with glass as a liquid-solid. Each element feels just barely held in place by its outside surfaces and textures are deftly employed to allow all the viewer’s senses to imaginatively engage. Underpinning the drama of the work is, on one hand, an almost formal quality to the markings and approach, and on the other, a refined yet wholly relaxed casualness to assemblage that suggests her brilliant alertness to the moment-to-moment possibilities of glass making. This double nature of the work lends it considerable depth, charm and a surprising intensity as an aesthetically mutable structure. We hope it encourages a new generation of innovators and risk takers in this vital medium, and are proud to bring Yoshizumi into the pantheon of Tom Malone Prize winners.”
Photo: Pippy Mount
The winning piece of the Tom Malone Prize 2021
About Ayano's winning piece, the Judges stated: “In selecting Ayano Yoshizumi’s work as the winner of the Tom Malone Prize 2021 we honour and support a young artist with an incredible creative future ahead of her. The trio of pieces that make up her composition ICON #2010 are an assured and convincing statement about the boldness required to truly capture the sensation of working with glass as a liquid-solid. Each element feels just barely held in place by its outside surfaces and textures are deftly employed to allow all the viewer’s senses to imaginatively engage. Underpinning the drama of the work is, on one hand, an almost formal quality to the markings and approach, and on the other, a refined yet wholly relaxed casualness to assemblage that suggests her brilliant alertness to the moment-to-moment possibilities of glass making. This double nature of the work lends it considerable depth, charm and a surprising intensity as an aesthetically mutable structure. We hope it encourages a new generation of innovators and risk takers in this vital medium, and are proud to bring Yoshizumi into the pantheon of Tom Malone Prize winners.”
ICON#2003 No.1
h170 w300 d110 (mm)
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
2020
Photo: Pippy Mount
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