Keiko Mukaide
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Keiko Mukaide is a Japanese artist who lives and works in the UK. She studied glass
at the Royal College of Art
in London and was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art
. She has works in many public and private collections in the UK and was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize
for applied art.
Her art work employs a number of glass making techniques, casting and fusing glass in a kiln
, manipulating glass in a blowing studio and even gluing shards of dichroic
glass to wire nets. Her recent work has been to produce large scale, site specific installations constructed from multiple small scale glass items. "Memory of Place" funded by The Arts Council of England and Scottish Arts Council
at York St. Mary's, Castlegate, York is a good example of this approach.
Collaborated with Si Applied on the Cutting Edge, Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK sculpture on Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK. A stainless steel sculpture, 90 m long and 5 m at its highest, completed in 2006.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
in London and was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh College of Art is an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing tertiary education in art and design disciplines for over two thousand students....
. She has works in many public and private collections in the UK and was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize
Jerwood Foundation
The Jerwood Foundation is a major United Kingdom funder of arts, education, and science.The foundation is particularly noted in the arts for establishing the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and associated projects such as the Jerwood Space for dance and exhibitions, the Jerwood Painting Prize, the...
for applied art.
Her art work employs a number of glass making techniques, casting and fusing glass in a kiln
Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, or oven, in which a controlled temperature regime is produced. Uses include the hardening, burning or drying of materials...
, manipulating glass in a blowing studio and even gluing shards of dichroic
Dichroism
Dichroism has two related but distinct meanings in optics. A dichroic material is either one which causes visible light to be split up into distinct beams of different wavelengths , or one in which light rays having different polarizations are absorbed by different amounts.The original meaning of...
glass to wire nets. Her recent work has been to produce large scale, site specific installations constructed from multiple small scale glass items. "Memory of Place" funded by The Arts Council of England and Scottish Arts Council
Scottish Arts Council
The Scottish Arts Council is a Scottish public body that distributes funding from the Scottish Government, and is the leading national organisation for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland...
at York St. Mary's, Castlegate, York is a good example of this approach.
Collaborated with Si Applied on the Cutting Edge, Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK sculpture on Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK. A stainless steel sculpture, 90 m long and 5 m at its highest, completed in 2006.
Exhibitions and collections
- Light of the North, Tate St IvesTate St IvesTate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists, including work of the St Ives School. The three storey building, designed by architects Evans and Shalev, lies on the site of an old gas works, overlooking Porthmeor Beach. It was opened in...
, 2006 - Spirit of Place, Talbot Rice GalleryTalbot Rice GalleryThe Talbot Rice Gallery is part of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland and was established in 1975. It takes its name from David Talbot Rice, the Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh from 1934–1972....
, Edinburgh, 2003 - One Crowded Hour, collaboration with Tabula Rasa Dance Company, Scotland 2001
- Between Seen and Unseen (Miegakari), Hill House, HelensburghHelensburghHelensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the eastern shore of the entrance to the Gareloch....
, Scotland 2001 - Elemental Traces, Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghRoyal Botanic Garden EdinburghThe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Originally founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland — Edinburgh,...
- Collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.