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Inspired by a fascination with the forests of Japan,
Nakamura's art displays an affinity for the organic -- the veinous texture of
leaves; the fluid strata of living cells. Shows at Taylor Galleries include Love Songs (2019), Dublin Moon (2017), Journeys (2015), and Passage (2011).
In 2010 she completed a commission for the Gate Theatre in Dublin as part of the PerCent for Art Scheme and was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Government of Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs.
She completed a residency at Fire Station Artists' Studios from 1999 to 2002 and was a member of TBG+S from 2003 to 2006.
She studied at the Nagoya Art School, Japan before moving to France to study printmaking at the Atelier Conre Point in Paris.
Taking the grid as her starting point, Nakamura's idiosyncratic paintings are remarkable for their intense depth of colour and incredibly fine finish. Her work is represented in private collections in Eurpoe, the USA and Japan as well as the public collections of IMMA, the Gate Theatre, Wexford Opera House, the OPW / State Art Collection, National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick City Art Gallery and Boyle Civic Collection.
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Although resolutely abstract, the titles of her work refer to people, places and objects she encounters in her daily life.She recently began making works on handmade paper using Japanese pigments and metal leaf that embrace a looser geometry.
Pearlescent pastels dominate, with echoes of intense colour gimpsed through the paintings' surface.
A month-long residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in the summer of 2019 saw her introduce representational elements (fish, horses, mountains) through a series of brightly-coloured drawings in watercolour and acrylic.
Makiko Nakamura has exhibited her work extensively in group and solo exhibitions in Ireland, Britain, the USA, Japan and France.
A daughter of Gifu City, the
papermaking center of Japan, her work recalls as well the fibrous delicacy of traditional Japanese paper.
CollectionsCentre Culturel Lutherien de Paris, Paris, France
Cite Internationale Des Arts Foundation, Paris France
The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Kobe International School, Kobe, Japan
SAFETY Corp., Porsche Japan
Takenaka Construction Group, Osaka, Japan
Boyle Civic Collection, Boyle, Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Solo Exhibtions
2024 When Stars are Born, John Martin Gallery, London
2023 Paintings from Ireland, Spirit Studios, Suffolk
2022 Rondo, John Martin Gallery, London
2022 Wings, Moons and Love Songs, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Cassini’s Journey, John Martin Gallery, London
2019 Love Song, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Moons of Jupiter, John Martin Gallery, London
2014 Room, John Martin Gallery, London
2013 Paintings 2011-2013, John Martin Gallery, London
2012 Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2012 Marchand d’art, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 ‘passage’ Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
2010 place, John Martin Gallery, London
2009 Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Glebe Gallery, Donegal, Ireland
Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2005 John Martin Chelsea, London, UK
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2004 Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003 Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
2002 Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co.Kildare, Ireland
1999 The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
1998 Morris Arboretum Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
1997 Cloitre des Billette, Paris, France
(In the Japan Year in France)
1996 Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya, Japan
(also in ’95, ’94, ’93, ’89)
1995 Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
(also in ’94, ’91, ’90, ’89, ’88, ’87, ’86)
1987 ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1986 Gallery Space to Space, Gallery Love collection, Nagoya, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2020 Preview, Cromwell Place, London
2019 The Winter Show, John Martin Gallery, London
2018 The Summer Show, John Martin Gallery, London
2012 Fiera, Bologna, Italy, John Martin Gallery ( ’11)
, Silvers and Golds, John Martin Gallery, London, UK
2011 group show, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
ART ATHINA, John Martin Gallery, Greece
2011 Arte Fiera, John Martin Gallery, Bologna
2010 ART ATHINA, John Martin Gallery, Greece
RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
(also in ’09, ’08, ’07, ’04, ’03, ’02 )
Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Ireland
(also in ’09, ’05, ’04, ’03 )
2009 Storylines, John Martin Gallery, London, UK
2008 Familiar Faces, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Univ.of Limerick, Ireland
RUA Annual Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2006 Art in State Buildings, Tour Exhibition of Government of Ireland
RHA Gala Banquet Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
(also in ’04, ’03 )
2004 Colour and Light, John Martin Gallery, London, UK
invited artists exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Lreland
2001 Two painters show, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Irish Connection, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Three painters show, Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
1999 Summer Exhibition, Hira Museum of Arts, Shiga, Japan
1998 Large Print Exhibition, Meyerson Hall Gallery of the Univ.of Pennsylvania, USA
1997 Three persons show, Deans Gallery of the Univ.of Pennsylvania, USA
L’Exposition Collective, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1995 Direction of Art 95, Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Arts Centre, Japan
1980-94 Various exhibitions at Museums, Galleries in Japan in the ’80s and ’90s
Education
1996 L’Atelier Contre Point ( print making ) Paris, France
1982 Nagoya Art School, Nagoya, Japan
1970-72 Kyoto Seika Junior College, the Fine Arts department, Kyoto, Japan
1967-70 Kanou Senior High School, the Arts Course, Gifu, Japan
Awards & Residencies
2010 Per Cent for Art Scheme at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
2003 – 06 Membership of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin , Ireland
2000 – 01 Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japanese Research Fellowship
1999 – 2002 Residency at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin, Ireland
1997 – 98 The post graduate school of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania (as a visiting artist ) Philadelphia, USA
1997 Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts Studios, Paris, France
1986 Fine work prize ” the 16th International Art Exhibition Japan”
Fine work prize ” the 7th Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition”
Public Collections
Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Gate Theatre, Wexford Opera House, The Office of Public Works, Ireland, National Self-Portrait Collection, Univ.
Her pieces, however, far from the result in a lifeless iteration.
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1951
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan;
Studied at the Nagoya Art Institute; Artist in Residence at the Studio of Cite
Internationale Des Arts Foundation, Paris; Visiting Artist at the Graduate
School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
Member of the Japan Artist Association, Tokyo;
Member of the Japanese and International Association of Art, Paris
2000: Selected Visiting Artist by the Arts Council of Ireland;
Granted Government Fellowship for the Study of Arts Abroad by Japan's
Agency for Cultural Affairs
An artist of extraordinary abstract vision, Makiko Nakamura's works
depict the micaceous flow of light and color across adjacent cells on a grid.
With the use of up to fifty layers of acrylic per canvas, Nakamura meticulously renders minute variations on the pattern within an overall scheme of similarity and repetition.
of Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Boyle Civic Collection, AXA insurance
The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Certre Culturel Lutherien de Paris, Franc
Makiko Nakamura was born in Japan in 1951 and has been based between Dublin and her native Kyoto since 1999.