Ikuyo Fujita Explained

Ikuyo Fujita 藤田育代
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Movement:Pop art

is a Japanese artist who works primarily in needle felt painting and mogol (pipe cleaner) art. She is known for rabbit and cat art. Her kawaii style needle felt paintings are popular among rabbit lovers in Japan.[1]

Life and career

Fujita was born in Tokyo, Japan. She started needle felt painting in 2004. Her early works were portraits of her pet, a Netherland Dwarf Rabbit named Chibi-chan.[2] Chibi-chan died in 2010 but Fujita continued to paint representations of her Netherland Dwarf.

Fujita's is a largely self-taught artist although her mother, an avid amateur handicrafts maker, showed her basics of the craftings. As a child, Fujita played with her mother's art materials and later began creating her own works as she grew older.[3] In 2010, she published her artworks online.[4] She had a solo exhibition in New York.[5]

In 2012, Active Corporation in Japan published her rabbit art calendar and postcard, the calendar and the postcard were sold in major department stores in Japan.[6] [7] In the same year, her art instruction book was published by Magazine Land publishing in Japan. She started teaching art workshops in Japan Handicraft Association and Mitsukoshi cultural center.[8] [9]

In 2014, her art instruction book was translated and published in Taiwan, Hongkong, and Macau.[10] Her artwork, lucky clover, was awarded new artist of the year at Kokusai Shiyoga Taisiyouten (Tokyo International Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix Exhibition) in Japan.[11]

In 2017, Active Corporation published her cat art postcards.[12]

She is currently living in Tokyo.

She is also an art instructor and author of an art instruction book. Her book is available in Chinese.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Publications

Media appearance

Notes and References

  1. Book: Living with House Rabbits Magazine / うさぎと暮らす No. 42. Fujita Ikuyo Interview. Magazine Land Publishing. October 2011. Japan. 78–81.
  2. Web site: ikuyo fujita. www.ikuyofujita.com. 2018-01-08.
  3. News: NHK Tokyo "Kon-nichiwa Itto-rokken" (NHK東京, こんにちは いっと６けん) Jan. 12, 2011. NHK Archives Library, Kawaguchi, Saitams-ken, Japan.
  4. Web site: ikuyo fujita. www.ikuyofujita.com. 2018-06-06.
  5. Web site: NY ArtBeat event archive.
  6. Active Corporation, 2013 Calendar catalog. May 2012. Ikuyo Fujita calendar. Active Corporation Co., LTD.. 8.
  7. Active Corporation, 2012 Everyday catalog. June 2012. Felt art rabbit postcard. Active Corporation Co., LTD.. 30. 2.
  8. Web site: Art Workshop Listings. Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Paintings Workshop 藤田育代 羊毛フェルト画「うさぎのバレリーナ」. October 2013. Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.
  9. Web site: Art Workshop Listings. Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Painting Workshop 藤田育代 羊毛フェルト画「草原の茶色いうさぎ」. September 2014. Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.
  10. Web site: Heliopolis culture group / 日月文化出版股份有限公司.
  11. Book: 9th annual international art awards artworks catalog (第九回・国際書画大賞展作品集). 2014. Japan International Art Institution (NPO法人日本國際藝術研究院). 17, 91.
  12. Active Corporation, 2017 Everyday catalog. December 2016. Felt Art Cat postcard. Active Corporation Co., LTD.. 55. 1.

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