Keiko Mukaide

Art Brokerage: Keiko Mukaide Japanese Glass Artist: She was born in 1954 in Tokyo. She studied glass at the Royal College of Art in London and was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art. She has works in many public and private collections in the UK and was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize for applied art. Her art work employs a number of glass making techniques, casting and fusing glass in a kiln, manipulating glass in a blowing studio and even gluing shards of dichroic glass to wire nets. Her recent work has been to produce large scale, site specific installations constructed from multiple small scale glass items. "Memory of Place" funded by The Arts Council of England and Scottish Arts Council at York St. Mary's, Castlegate, York is an example of this approach. Collaborated with Si Applied on the Cutting Edge, Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK sculpture on Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK. A stainless steel sculpture, 90 m long and 5 m at its highest, completed in 2006. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.