Light, Shadow, Colour and Space
Artist
Keiko Mukaide
(Tokyo, Japan, born 1954)
Date2006
Mediumglass discs & metal squares
ClassificationsSculptures
Dimensions45 x 150 x 150cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 2006.
Copyright© Keiko Mukaide (2004)
LocationOn Loan
Object numberABDAG014415
About MeKeiko Mukaide was born in Japan but now lives and works in Fife. She is currently a Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art.She has an international reputation as a glass artist and among other awards was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize for the Applied Arts and in 2006 completed a site-specific installation entitled 'Light of the North' for Tate St Ives.
Her work is inspired by the sea and the landscape around her and by the qualities of natural light. She uses the translucent and prismatic properties of glass as a metaphor for the seen and unseen forces of nature.
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Keiko Mukaide is an internationally renowned Japanese glass artist who now resides in Scotland. The relationship of light and space are her primary source of inspiration.
