Kiri Kiri

Information overload? Are you fed up with being bombarded by media messages that are, at best, useless and at worst create great insecurities? Is your peace of mind wrecked? Yeah? Same! As a release, I scramble the info and make my own form and meaning. Scalpels and glue in full lo-tech swing with a sprinkle of digital ding dong. Some pieces have a dark mood, some are angry, others are silly. There are also various self-portraits. I hope I can make you question things, but also to enlighten, confuse and amuse you.

Japanese Language and HIstory, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan 1992-3
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Calligraphy under Hiroko Kimura, Stockholm University, Sweden 1990-1992
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Japanese Language and History, Stockholm University, Sweden 1990-1992
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History of Art, Stockholm University, Sweden 1986-1988
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Fine Art, Stockholms Konstskola (Stockholm Art School), Sweden 1984-1986

2023 "Unruly Performer" Solo Kiri Kiri Exhibition, 44 AD, Bath, 13-19 March .

An alluringly odd redeployment of magazine images astutely spliced together to capture the critical, rebellious spirit.

‍Addresses the perpetual human preoccupation with vanity, consumerism, fashion, fame, mortality, sex, gender, wealth and power, as well as pondering the cultural expectations of the sexes and the treatment of the body and youth as a commodity.

2023 "Fossil", annual 44AD Associate Annual Exhibition (14-21/1).

2022 Associates Annual Exhibition 44AD (14-23/1).
Kiri Kiri poster for Exhibition March 2023
Kiri Kiri promotional poster 2023.

2021 "I Don't Have a Favourite", annual 44AD Associate Exhibition online, "Self-Portrait with Fries", online 20/01-20/06. The artwork was chosen for a full page front piece for The Arts in Bath Life Magazine issue No.438, Feb-March 2021.
Kiri Kiri art punk dress lady with a flamingo head eating fries from Mcdonalds.
Self-portrait with fries in Bath Life magazine.

‍2021 "OUCH!" Virtual exhibition of Art and Science celebrating 10 years of study at the Centre of Pain Research, University of Bath, 13/11/20- 31/10/21. Sculpture "Warried (sic)" was created for this exhibition and selected for the Bath Univ...