Miyazaki studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2003-2015) and at the Royal College

of Art, UK (2011- 2013). The artist recently completed a PhD in craft metal casting in Tokyo.

Keita Miyazaki’s sculptures feature materials whose association suggests strident discord

and unfamiliar visual language. Discarded car engine components are welded together and

then combined with coloured origami-like folded paper and sewn felt, fashioning sculptures

of contradiction and aesthetic intrigue. An element of sound inspired by the jingles found

in Japanese supermarkets and metro stations is often incorporated through small speakers

echoing the cacophonic persistence of city life and the banalisation of daily existence. The

juxtaposing of solid and universal materials such as metal against light and fragile paper and

felt, escape formal paradigms, rather evoking a sense of post-apocalyptic reconciliation.

Signaling a formal departure from his hybrid biomorphic sculptures, Miyazaki’s latest body

of work draws on the ‘Vanitas’ of seventeenth century Dutch painting igniting profound

philosophical meditations on the transience of human existence.