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A mutual arrangement
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
Born in Tokyo in 1954, glass artist Keiko Mukaide came to London in 1989 to study at the Royal College of Art where she gained an MA in Ceramics and Glass. In Japan, Mukaide had originally trained and worked as a graphic designer, with her work in glass merely acting as a creative side-line pursued in her spare time. Eventually, this pastime became all-consuming and following her creative instincts she took up glass-work as a full-time artistic calling. Such a leap was partially triggered by her participation in some life-altering workshops at Dale Chihuly’s Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, USA. From such modest beginnings, Mukaide’s work has risen to a position of international prominence. Her work is included in some of the world’s most prestigious glass collections such as the Corning Museum of Glass in the USA, The Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Hamburg. Mukaide’s artistic practice has evolved from making one-off pieces for galleries and showrooms to large, site-specific installations that not only resonate with the physical environment but, crucially, delve deeper into a more poetic and...
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