Lot 29 - Yuki Aruga - Study: The Flower of Forgetting

ARTIST INFO

About 

Informed by personal experiences and mixed Japanese-British heritage, my practice addresses notions of loss, longing and identity. 
 
I draw inspiration from nature as well as Japanese and European still life paintings and religious iconography of the 16th-18th century. The works combine the traditional and the contemporary by adopting techniques of the Old Masters to create paintings from digitally rendered collages. 
 
My paintings often feature dark, expansive spaces in which subjects are held unfathomably suspended, alluding to the idea of the void and the numinous. More recent sculptures in wax and clay, and installations using paper, rice and soil, are symbolic of legacy, desire and rebirth. 
 
Materially the works are often part of a Western tradition, while conceptually they are rooted in Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetic principles. Almost as a metaphor for my mixed-race heritage, the works lie somewhere between; between abstraction and figuration, the real and the virtual, East and West, presence and absence. 
 

Education 

2019-20  
City & Guilds of London Art School, MA Fine Art 
2005-08  
Camberwell College of Arts UAL, BA Hons Fine Art Painting 
2004-05  
Wimbledon School of Arts UAL, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2023 
Without End, Maddox Gallery, London 
2016   
Whole to Part, Chappell Contemporary, Whitstable  
2015   
Now and Again, The Royal Over-Seas League, London  
2014   
Only Now… Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong  
2012   
Ever Spring, Covent Garden, London 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2022 
Best of British, Maddox Gallery, Westbourne Grove, London 
Modern Renaissance, Maddox Gallery, Maddox St, London 
2021 
Unpacking Gainsborough, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London 
Class of 2020, City & Guilds of London Art School MA and BA Graduate Exhibition, The Bargehouse, London 
Oils, Hybrid Gallery, Devon 
Presence Volatile, Espace Enchante, Yvoire, France 
2020 
The Violet Hour, The Birds Are Singing in the Distant Woods 
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 

Gallery Representation 

Maddox Gallery 

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