Meet the Artist: Yukako Shibata

An opportunity to meet artist Yukako Shibata and learn more about her exhibition at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, ‘luminescence: Installation and Photography by Yukako Shibata’.

There will be a gallery discussion with Yukako Shibata, from 6.00pm-7.00pm.

The event is free of charge.

 “Yukako Shibata’s objects seep in from the boundaries of a space, slowly penetrating the consciousness. And like the light that filters into an enclosed clearing, they are often made to irradiate, or create the illusion of doing so, thereby seeming to demarcate space through light.”

– Kamini Vellodi (artist/ writer/ researcher)

 “My intention is for viewers to experience my objects as meditative entities which can stimulate memory, and which embody qualities of being precious, desirable and seductive.”

– Yukako Shibata

Yukako Shibata (b. 1972) was born in Hokkaido, Japan. She completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2005, during which she was awarded an Artist Residency in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2003. She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and has had solo shows at the Light contemporary, London (2006) and the Atrium Gallery, London (2006). Shibata lives and works in London.