Ikuko Iwamoto
“I ate lots of plastics, and now I am your dinner. Enjoy!” (Sea bream-left-hand-side B), 2025
Porcelain and Found Man Made Object
24 x 29 x 8 cm
9 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 3 1/8 in
9 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 3 1/8 in
Series: “I ate lots of plastics, and now I am your dinner. Enjoy!”
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Photo: Ikuko Iwamoto
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Continuing her series of works which explore environmental concerns, Ikuko Iwamoto has created five new works for us for Collect including a new body of work called, “I ate lots...
Continuing her series of works which explore environmental concerns, Ikuko Iwamoto has created five new works for us for Collect including a new body of work called, “I ate lots of plastic, and now I am your dinner. Enjoy!”
Growing up near the sea in Japan, on a diet of mainly pescatarian food, these sculptures arose from Ikuko’s concerns about modern day fishing practices which are causing irreparable damage to vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems.
Growing up near the sea in Japan, on a diet of mainly pescatarian food, these sculptures arose from Ikuko’s concerns about modern day fishing practices which are causing irreparable damage to vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems.
Ikuko comments,"These fish are the ghosts of the sea representing fish whose homes have been destroyed by fishing practices such as bottom trawling, those captured for nothing because they're too small or no suitable for market and those which have been killed by plastic waste."
Ikuko and Cavaliero Finn will donate 10% of the proceeds of this work to The Ocean Clean-Up initiatives and to Charles Clover’s Blue Marine Foundation.
Ikuko's skill and imagination have come together in this poignant work that harks back to her roots in Japan where she trained under ceramic master Asuka Tsuboi, one of the pioneering women potters to emerge in Japan in the 1970s, before coming to London encouraged by Tsuboi to study at Camberwell and the RCA. This work is a culmination of everything we love about Ikuko’s work. She creates work with sensitivity, wit, patience, incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail.
Exhibitions
Selected ExhibitionsCollect 2025, Somerset House, London
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