Artist Profile
japanese-lacquer
Saya Yamagihi
Career
- 1981
- Born in Ishikawa Prefecture
- 2006
- 2006 Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Crafts, majoring in lacquer
- 2013
- 2013 Completed Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
- 2023
- Currently resides in Kanazawa City and is a part-time lecturer at Tohoku University of Art & Design (2020-)
- 2024
- Currently resides in Kanazawa, part-time lecturer at Tohoku University of Art & Design (2020-)
Awards Received
- 2012
- 2012 Japan Jewelry Art Exhibition 2012, Encouragement Prize (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, etc.)
Exhibition
- 2023
- Connecting Kiyomi" (Art Shop Tsukiyo, Ishikawa)
- 2023
- Solo exhibition "Quiet Dialogue" at gallery emmy art +, Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
- Solo exhibition "Autumn Garden" at Gallery DiEGO Omotesando, Tokyo.
- 2022
- Solo exhibition "imaginary plants collection" (micheko gallery, Germany)
- 2022
- Botanical Tale (Gallery Ishigure, Tokyo, etc.)
- 2022
- Solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Takashimaya Kogei Salon, Tokyo / 2020, 2015）
- 2019
- 2019 Solo exhibition "Imaginary Plant Specimens" (Gallery Hayashi, Tokyo)
- 2018
- 2018 Lacquer Jewelry Exhibition (gallery C.A.J., Kyoto)
- 2017
- 2017 CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART JEWELLERY (LESLEY KEHOE GALLERIES, Australia)
- 2016
- 2016 Solo exhibition "plant collecting" (Yukiko Koide Office, Tokyo)
- 2016
- YIA ART FAIR #07 Paris (Le Carreau du Temple, France)
- 2016
- LEXUS NEW TAKUMI PROJECT 2016, Takumi, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2013
- 2013 Risshun_RISSHUN (O-Jewel, Tokyo)
From the owner
She draws scenes that she wants to keep, which she receives from flowers, plants, trees, water, light, and smells, with the help of materials that she finds in her surroundings.
Her representative works include "plant collecting" (2013-), a series of works in which he collects imaginary plants that arise in his mind like specimens, and "wear the scenery" (2016-), a series of jewelry based on plants and Japanese scenes.
She mainly produces small sculptures and jewelry using traditional lacquer decoration techniques such as maki-e, mother-of-pearl inlays, and eggshells, by carving wood and applying lacquer over and over again.