2009 Fresh! finalist Emi Fukuda was awarded the Screaming Pixel Professional Photography Portfolio Award, which enabled her to get a body of work photographed professionally by Andrew Barcham.
“Winning the 2009 Screaming Pixel Professional Photography Portfolio Award was a great experience for me as an undergraduate student. To have my work shown alongside artists and designers from other disciplines was a valuable opportunity that gave me confidence in myself and my work. As a young artist it has given me exposure and experience that helped foster and encourage me into becoming a professional artist.”
Artist statement
In this Series of works titled Microcosm I have explored the idea of the miniature world, a place of wonder, full of possibilities and discoveries. A little place that engages the imagination and draws you in and for an instant you feel as though you are a part of that tiny world.
Taking a very organic and playful approach to constructing these series of rings, I let my intuition and imagination guide me. Using silver, brass or copper sheet to build the main structure, the ring is then built up with layers of different resins. Texture and colour are added with acrylic paint, glass beads and different finishing techniques. Semi precious stones are added sometimes in an obvious position of show and other times in a hidden corner where only the close observer discovers it. Resin's versatility allows me to experiment and explore with texture, form and colour in a way that deviates from the traditional idea of jewellery design.
Each work is an organic construction that takes on its own life during making; constantly evolving and changing. I like to think that each work is not ‘made’ but in a sense it ‘grows’ into existence. Much like microcosms in nature you feel drawn into this world of miniature to look and touch and really experience and engage with each piece.
