古来より神と人を結ぶ「神使」として、さまざまな動物たちが祀られてきました。
その姿は人間の想像力により、時に異形の魅力を湛えています。
ヌイグルミ系造形作家のミヤタケイコさん。独自のその作品世界は、
木彫、テラコッタ等も素材に取り入れ、近年より深化を見せています。
「Lucky Charms」展、戌年と共に 縁起よく始まります。
(企画 佐藤香織）
From ancient times, people had been worshipping various animals as messengers between gods and people.
Figures of the sacred animals have grown by people’s imagination in some ways to wear magical attractiveness
of strange-looking beings. Keiko Miyata is an artist who calls herself as a “stuffed-animallike-sculpture creator”,
because she firstly started her career as a stuffed animal designer.
Her unique world now expands to include wood and terra-cotta figures, in the process of deepening it further in recent years.
Miyata’s latest exhibition “Lucky Charms” is opening on January 12, 2018 at Gallery Nayuta, bringing good luck to you all
at the beginning of the year of the Dog.
(Curated by Kaori Sato)
ミヤタケイコ Keiko Miyata
短大で絵画を専攻後、ぬいぐるみデザイナーになる。
あるとき舞台美術に触発され1994年から創作活動を始める。
独自のカラーを持つ、様々な動物がMIXされたような大小奇妙な動物を制作している。
架空のものだがある意味生きているような作品作りを心がけている。
そのため素材は様々なものを試行錯誤しながら使用（最近は木や陶器等）。
東京を中心にギャラリーでの展示やグループ展などに参加。海外での展示も多数。
子どもから大人まで楽しめるワークショップも随時行なっている。
Keiko Miyata: Stuffed-animallike- sculpture creator
Worked as a stuffed animal designer after graduation from the junior college with a major in painting.
Inspired by a certain stage design, she started her career as an artist in 1994.
Since then she has been creating unique, strange animallike sculptures from small to large in size,
as if different sort of animals are mixed in her imagination.
Miyata’s animals are imaginary, but she intends to make them look alive.
Through making many attempts she chooses a variety of materials, and lately she often uses wood and ceramic.
Joins many exhibitions in Tokyo and other cities in Japan and overseas.
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ミヤタケイコ展「Lucky Charms」
Keiko Miyata Exhibition [Lucky Charms]
2018/1/12（Fri）- 1/27（Sat） 12:00-19:00
月曜・火曜休 Mon＆Tue Closed
