Kimio tsuchiya biography examples

Kimio Tsuchiya's interest in sculpture began in the mid 1980s after seeing the work of Richard Long and the Japanese Mono-ha artists, including Lee U-Fan (represented in the Queensland Art Gallery Collection), and others who have explored the relationships between man, nature and time.

Tsuchiya's first degree in architecture has influenced his work as an artist, particularly aspects of scale, space and the placement of objects in architectural terms.

Kimio tsuchiya biography examples

Tsuchiya has developed a refined and sensitive art practice which investigates environmental and societal changes during the last century.

Tsuchiya made his early sculptures from found materials, pieces of driftwood, left over scraps from demolition sites, collections of fragmented stone and metal, and pieces of chipped wood.

These were materials of no significant value; they are discarded resources. Tsuchiya's early works were fuelled by the economic boom in Japan in the 1980s and the parallel