- Yoshiko Okada
- Work
| Yoshiko studied glass techniques extensively in the UK. Her work addresses the cultural
collage of her Japanese background and the English environment in which she lives. She
explores her identity via the synergy and paradoxes that these different influences evoke.
Yoshiko has won a number of prestigious awards for her work including the Coburg Glass
Prize 2006 and Young Glass 2007 in Denmark. Yoshiko uses kiln cast techniques, combined with sandblasting and photographic fused imagery, to capture different facial expressions in her solid glass sculptures. Her work is purposefully simple in form, but multiplicitous in message. Yoshiko plays with the tension between surface image and depth of message. Hidden feelings and emotions, which lie beneath the human surface, are reflected and veiled within her work and captured in a frozen moment. Education 2001–04 - BA (Hons) 3D Design Degree in Glass, Surrey Institute, UK 2000–01 - Decorative Glass Part 2, London, UK - Kiln Glass Casting, Westminster Adult Education college, UK 1995–97 - Decorative Glass Part 1, London, UK 1997 Glass Engraving trained under Peter Dreiser, Morley College, UK - Ceramic trained under Gill Crowley 1990–92 - Kimono, dress and fabric Design and Manufacture Diploma, Seitoku - Technical college, Chiba. Japan Selected Exhibitions 2010 SOFA New York, Zest Glass Gallery, UK 'Figuration' Zest Glass Gallery, UK 2009 Catching the Light, Blackwell the Arts & Crafts house, Cumbria Chase Charity Art Sale, RCA, London Imago Galleries, CA, USA 2008 A Japanese Dialogue, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland Solo show, Gallery Broft, Leerdam Netherland 36th Annual International Glass invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat galleries, USA Plumbline gallery, St Ives, Cornwall Glass Art Gallery, London Glassblowing, London 2007 Chase Charity Art Sale, Royal College of Art, London Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan, British Museum Shop, London ʻArtist in the Spotlightʼ, The Grace Barrand Design Centre, UK Young Glass 2007, Ebeltoft, Denmark 35th Annual International Glass invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat galleries, USA Effervescence, Sussex Barn Art Gallery, West Sussex, UK Delmore Gallery, Devon, UK Glasgalerie, Germany Quest Gallery, Bath, UK The National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK The Hub Design Centre, Lincolnshire, UK 2006 Effervescence, Sussex Barn Art Gallery, West Sussex, UK Group exhibition, Church gallery, Devon, UK ʻOriginʼ the London Craft Fair 2006, London, UK British Glass Biennale 2006, West Midlands, UK New Glass 06, Cowdy gallery, Gloucestershire, UK Coburg Glass Prize 2006, Coburg, Germany Plateaux gallery, London, UK Transparent rock, Oxfordshire, UK 2004 New designers, London Mixed show, Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland 2000 Mixed show, Whitleys, London, UK Selected Awards and Competitions 2007 - Short listed for Young Glass Prize 2007, Denmark 2006 - Short listed for Coburg Glass Prize 2006, Germany 2004 - First Prize for Glass Sellers Student Award, London 2003 - Short listed for Bombay Sapphire Martini Glass Prize, London 2001 - Short listed for Stevens Glass Competition, London 2000 - Short listed for “Inspired by V & A” V & A Museum, London |