artist/ Kuniko Maeda

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Kuniko Maeda is a London-based Japanese artist who works primarily with paper, leather and textiles to create artworks and installations for public and private spaces.

She specializes in sustainable textile design and incorporates traditional Japanese techniques with digital technology. By exploring the possibilities of materials and their unique properties, she enables materials to speak and embrace natural abstraction.
She draws inspiration from our everyday environment and everyday objects, which tend to be overlooked and forgotten in a hectic urban life.

In June 2023, one of her pieces, Columbidae, was selected to embody the visual of the emblematic piece for the 6th edition of the Révélations show, held at the Grand Palais Ephémère from June 7 to 11, 2023.

Blending paper cut-outs, acrylic paint and kakishibu (persimmon tannin lacquer), she creates elegant, airy forms from scratch, bringing a stunning palette of colors to her work. She draws her inspiration from the plumage of birds, a source of poetry, beauty and lightness, but also from often neglected everyday objects and materials, which she reuses to transform them into works of art.