Ayane Higa
Ayane Higa (b. 2000, Okinawa) is a Japanese ceramic artist based in Kanazawa. Her practice explores the relationship between material, body and emotion. Through an original textile-to-ceramic process, she creates sculptural rabbit figures that reflect themes of protection, vulnerability and connection.
Education
2023 BFA in Crafts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Okinawa, Japan
2025 MFA in Crafts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Okinawa, Japan
2025– Research Student, Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
Awards
2023 Contemporary Ceramic Encouragement Prize, Japan Ceramic Society
2023 Encouragement Prize, 11th Toubi Exhibition, Ceramic Art Society of Japan
2024 Selected, 53rd Okinawa Prefectural Arts and Culture Festival Open Exhibition
The fabric disappear.
Its structure is preserved in ceramic.
Higa’s practice explores the transformation of textile into ceramic. Although the fabric disappears during firing, its soft texture remains, preserved in ceramic.
By transforming a soft material into something hard yet fragile, she expresses the delicacy and transience of the human heart.
Her rabbit series depicts herself wearing a rabbit costume — a figure that reflects the desire to protect oneself from others, while still longing to connect with them.
A little piece to carry with you
During the making of Higa’s ceramic rabbits, small pieces of textile and clay naturally fall away.
These fragments are collected and preserved in small glass vessels — each one a unique trace of the artist’s process.
