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Atsuko is a contemporary artist with a background in embroidery.

Atsuko graduated from University of London, Goldsmiths College, postgraduate course of textile and embroidery in 1980.

Known as a contemporary artist in home and foreign based on the embroidery of her background. Space for Meditation, a series of works for her own exhibition, was the starting point from a gallery to the TV and the stage art. She aims to create work of contemporary art which can be classics.

I create installation works that carefully consider space, and works that create meditative spaces. Therefore, due to the nature of my work, I mainly exhibit at solo exhibitions rather than than group exhibitions.

My work includes the blood series that expresses passion, the forest series with the theme that everyone has a forest in their hearts, and the justice series “Look carefully!”

The underlying theme of The “Air & Holes” series that I am currently producing continues uninterrupted since the first “Blood” series.

When creating a work of justice, I looked so carefully that I went into a trance-like state and saw the world transparently. This experience led to the start of the transparent series, and the Air & Holes series began with the desire to “see the air!”

KU has two different meanings in Japanese. One is the sky and the other is the emptiness. And emptiness is not nothingness.

Ki is the spirit, mind, nature, air, or all of the above and although it cannot be seen or felt, it is the gentleness that we feel around us. It’s a sign.

The hole is reality, the universe, the unknown unknown. The Air & Holes series will continue for a while. Realising that the time left for me is short, I will continue to work hard to create works as an artist. I want to create works that will remain classics