Mizuki is an award winning contemporary jewellery artist, living and working in Worcestershire having graduated from Hereford College of Arts.
Prior to jewellery making, she spends time building ideas and designs in her sketch books and making paper samples. Practicing in mark-making and playing with paper gives her simple yet delicate sculptural design ideas in her jewellery making.
Mark-making is a simple practice of different lines, dots, patterns, and textures. These marks are sometimes collected from random drawings from her sketch books, the photographs she has taken or marks she found in daily life. She enjoys this practice in enamelling as it is both controllable and non-controllable on the enamelled surface, which also differs from the firing time and kiln temperature.
Oxidised black silver fastenings for each enamelled element are carefully designed and handmade by Mizuki, the black lines cast like shadows parallel with the scratched enamel marks.
Playing with paper is the ideal practice for her to nurture existing ideas to go further or even getting new ideas without technical barriers and difficulties in her finishing materials. Once a jewellery piece is made or during its process of making, it also feeds her inspiration to get and grow new ideas for the next project.
Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions & Events
2024
Dazzle Edinburgh at Dovecot Studios, 2 – 25 August
Made in Leamington, Royal Pump Room Leamington Spa, 12 – 13 October
Education
2011 – 2014 BA(Hons) Jewellery Design – First Class with Honours, Hereford College of Arts (UK)
2005 – 2007 Associate’s Degree in Visual Design – A Class, Akita Municipal Junior College of Arts and Crafts (Japan)
Awards and Achievements
2018
Best in Show, Made By Hand Cheltenham
2017
Sue Herdman One to Watch award, MADE LONDON Marylebone
h.Art OMP 1st prize – an exhibition at The Craft Gallery
2016
Hereford Contemporary The DKP Gallery Award sponsored by De Koffie Pot Hereford
Hereford Contemporary – Selected for New Business Support Stand
2015
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair – Selected for One Year On stand
2014
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair – Selected for Graduate showcase
Winner of the Clive Richards Award for Student of the Year
2014 – 2024
Member of the British Society of Enamellers
Past Exhibitions & Events
2023
Dazzle Edinburgh at Dovecot Studios
MADE Showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
New Faces, Bircham Gallery
2022
Summer Exhibition, Magpie Contemporary Art
Connecting Lines, Makers Guild Wales
2021
Platform and Function, Platform Gallery
MADE Showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Black and White, TAKE4 Gallery Ledbury
Monochrome, Ruthin Craft Centre
Showcase, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2020
Digital Craft Festival
‘Ten’ Exhibition, Unit Twelve Gallery
Blue Magpie Contemporary Craft Fair, Great Malvern
Winter Shop, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
2019
MADE LONDON Marylebone
Contemporary Craft Fair DISCOVER – GATHER – GIVE
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Manchester
MAKE 2019, Devon Guild of Craftsmen
Court Barn Christmas Exhibition, Chipping Campden
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
Playful Shapes, Studio Vault
Showcase at Clifton Rocks
h.Art Herefordshire Art Week, Trumpet Corner Gallery
Art in the Park Festival, Leamington Spa
Contemporary Craft Fair DISCOVER – GATHER – GIVE, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Made By Hand Cheltenham, Cheltenham
Winter Exhibition, Anne Morgan Jewellery
Out of This World – Glimpses of Magic, The Art Shop and Chapel
2018
Crafted for CHRISTMAS, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
Jewellery showcase curated by Anna Lewis, Mission Gallery, Swansea
Contemporary Arts Fair DISCOVER: GATHER: GIVE, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
h.Art ‘Arts and Crafts Alive in Brockhampton’, Herefordshire
MADE showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, York
Made in Leamingtonm at Art in the Park, Leamington Spa
Scratch the Surface, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds
The Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, Devon
Spring Showcase, the Longship, Scotland
Spring Exhibition, Gallery Nine, Bath
Hand + Heart, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Made by Hand Cheltenham, Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham
2017
Winter Showcase, Gill Wing Jewellery, London
Winter Show, The Art Shop and Chapel, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The Elements, Artichoke Gallery, Ticehurst East Sussex
Made by Hand, City Hall, Cardiff
MADE LONDON Marylebone, Marylebone, London
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Campfield Market Hall, Manchester
h.Art OMP prize exhibition, The Craft Gallery, Old Mayor’s Parlour, Hereford
h.Art, Trumpet Tea Room: Gallery & Garden, Herefordshire
Showcase, Anne Morgan Jewellery, Penarth
Leamington Art in the Park Festival, Royal Leamington Spa
InProcess, De Koffie Pot Gallery, De Koffie Pot, Hereford
The Craft Gallery Showcase, Old Mayor’s Parlour, Hereford
2016
…. and a Side Serving of Silver, Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire
Enamoured, Assay Office, Birmingham
Hereford Contemporary, Leftbank, Hereford
Enamoured, The Goldsmith’s Centre, London
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Old Granada Studios, Manchester
Craft Open West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Eastern Aesthetics, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds
2015
Osmosis, Temple Bar, Dublin
Modern Japanese Design, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Hatch exhibition, Old Mayor’s Parlour, Hereford
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, One year on, Manchester
Not Too Precious retail showcase, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, North Wales
2014
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Graduate Showcase, Manchester
Upcoming Designers: Hereford graduate, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Made by Hand, Cardiff
Young Open Exhibition, Hereford
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen Summer Show, Chipping Campden
New Designers, London
Hereford College of Arts Degree Show, Hereford