Emi Miyashita
The work of Japan-based artist Emi Miyashita explores the relationship between fragility and strength of life and death in reality based on her own experience.
Emi's fine-lined artworks are created with pencil on paper and the concepts are based on life and death, meaning of life, feminist, and the psychoanalysis especially written by Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. regarding of her own childhood memories, the near death experience she had occurred in 2001 and her motherhood experience; pregnancy, giving birth, miscarriages and child raising with her own children since 2013 when retuned to Japan.
Motherhood 2013-Present
coming soon
London 2004-2013
Here several drawings of female forms blow are inspired by her life in London and its culture the term she lived from 2004 to
2013.
Biography
Emi Miyashita
Born in 03. May. 1982
EDUCATIONS
2009-2010
Chelsea Collage of Arts MA
2006-2009
Central Saint Martins collage of Art and Design BA Fine Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 The Runninghorse Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 Vyner Street Gallery, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Desires, Nightmares and Dreams II, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
2010
Summer Show: Tanabata, Maddox Arts, London
Counting Thoughts curated by Mayssa Fattouh, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
The Affordable Art Fair in Bristol
2009
C4RD Centre for Recent Drawing, London
Masters Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Interim Show of the MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Flatpack Festival 3, Birmingham
2008
Other Asias, Nolias Gallery, London
Distorted Space, Waterloo Gallery, London
Degree Art Festival Collect4 Exhibition, The Empire Gallery, London
Islington Art Fair, Candid Arts, London
Interim 1, Rollo Contemporary Art, London
Siteline/Siteshow, London
Desire’s smoking gun, Whitecross Gallery, London
Summer Show, Maddox Arts, London
BLANK CANVAS, Pollocks London presents, London 2008 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design BA Fine Art Degree Show London
2007
Hand in Hand, The Embassy of Japan and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design presents, The Embassy of Japan in the UK, London
Misguided Souls, The Covent Garden Photography Studio, London2003 Hana-Bana (Flowers), Gallery Conceal Ginza, Tokyo
SELECTED EVENTS
2010 Bottletop charity auction
2010 Phillips de Pury & Company, London
2008 Presentation at Pecha-Kucha (http://www.pecha-kucha.org/),The Embassy of Japan in the UK, London
2008 Drawings for Art Magazine Trespass (www.thelondonmagazine.net/ ,www.trespassmagazine.co.uk)Drawings for Fashion in Film Festival “If Looks Could Kill” (www.fashioninfilm.com/)
COMMISSIONS
2010 F65- Limited Edition Art Book, DegreeArt, London
