Etsuko Fukaya graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music Graduate School in 2007. She makes meticulous monochromatic etchings no more than a dozen centimetres square. The works are astonishingly detailed, each entailing months of painstaking engraving. The images grow biomorphically from the tip of the engraving needle, expanding inch by inch to ultimately produce a densely articulated image brimming with plant, animal and bird life.
Read MoreIn the artist’s words: I think that the desire for living lies in all living things, and animals and plants are possessed with the most honest and avaricious thirst for it.
Etsuko Fukaya was included in the exhibition: Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art at the Mori Art Musuem Tokyo.
