My practice explores ideas surrounding identity, memory, heritage, and (not) belonging. My artwork reflects my dual nationality- a half-Japanese and half-English woman brought up in England.
I have a keen interest in traditional Japanese Ukiyo-E 浮世絵 printmaking and period British textile patterns. Layers combining processes are prominent in my work, reflecting the mismatch of cultures, emotions, and memories that I have experienced throughout my life in England and Japan. Combining a mixed range of media including copperplate etching and aquatint, relief print, painting, drawing, and embroidery, both reveal and conceal my feelings of displacement and belonging, through depicting both cultural and personal objects that represent memories from my British and Japanese family with sentimentality and a subtle sense of humour.
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Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk. Kimono stand made from Sapele wood.
Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk. Kimono stand made from Sapele wood.
Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk. Kimono stand made from Sapele wood.
Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk. Kimono stand made from Sapele wood.
Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk.
Kimono created by painting onto thin paper using oil paints, then digitally printed onto viscose satin. Fabric then etched onto using copperplate etching process, then digitally embroidered. Lining and obi made from Habotai silk
