Keiko Mukaide

Keiko Mukaide was born in 1954 in Tokyo, Japan, and studied at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, and the Royal College of Art, London.

She established a studio in Scotland in 1993 and is now a research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art and is based in Fife.

She was short-listed for the 1998 Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Glass and has exhibited internationally, with work in some of the world's most prestigious glass collections.

Her work has evolved from single pieces for galleries, to large site-specific installations responding to physical and spiritual environments.

Mukaide uses glass in many forms to create a link between viewer, artist and the natural world.

She describes her work as being "informed by ancient principles of geomancy - an art that analyses the subtle earth energies that ebb and flow throughout the landscape, assisting and enhancing a relationship with spirit and place."

Recently she has created site-specific installations for the Hill House in Helensburgh (Miegakari - Between Seen and Unseen, 2001), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Elemental Traces, 2000), Talbot Rice Gallery (Spirit of Place, 2003) and Tate St Ives (Light of the North, 2006).

Mukaide is pictured above in York St Mary's, top right is Spirit of Place, 2003, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, bottom right is Hydrosphere 2, 2000, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. All photographs by Shannon Tofts.