Born in Tokyo Japan in 1990, the Fukuzawa family moved with baby Ion to Sydney, Australia before his first birthday. He grew up shuffling between Japan and Sydney until he was 18 years old. The nature he was exposed to down under is abundantly clear as an influence in his artwork.  He attended international schools in Tokyo for both middle and high school, then studied design and ceramics at the University of New South Wales graduating with a BA in Ceramic Design in 2013. Post graduation he made a living producing vessels for restaurants for several years however longed for a more expressionist craft. “I was greatly influenced by Hattori Makiko, Kuwata Takuro, and other artists from the Tajimi Pottery Design Technical Institute whom I saw at modern art exhibitions in New York”. He subsequently enrolled in the Institute which offered cutting-edge technology and a wide range of frontiers to explore, graduating there in 2020.