Yuko Nishikawa

Artworks by Yuko Nishikawa

1. Yuko Nishikawa

2. Yuko Nishikawa creates a fantastical environment with her colourful, textural lively forms. With a hands-on, exploratory approach, she makes paintings, lighting, mobiles and sculptures using a variety of mediums.

3. https://www.yukonishikawa.com/

4. The sculptures are made with used photo-background paper I collect from artists and photographers in my Brooklyn studio building. I break the paper down to pulp, formulate it with bookbinders' glue into an air-dry clay, and hand form “cookies”, the colourful elements. The rich colours come from the colours of the donated paper; there are no added paints or pigments.

5. A strange thing happens when I unload ceramic pieces from a kiln. The piece which I have spent hours building with my own hand, appears to have become its own being, as if I’m meeting it for the first time. There are visible changes that happen to a piece from firing: the colour changes, the material hardens and the form shrinks.