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Yoko Akino
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Yoko Akino was born in Kyoto in 1967, into an extended family group of artists and potters. Between 1976 and 1985 she studied drawing under the tutelage of her grandfather, Fuku Akino, himself a celebrated artist, and Professor of Painting at Kyoto City Art University.
In 1986 she became a draftsperson in an architect’s practice in Tokyo, where she remained until 1990. This was a very influential period for her- in her own words, “Deeply impressed by the contrast between the antural intimacy of my home, the traditional village of my upbringing, and the vast anonymous city architecture that surrounded me, I developed my line drawing skills.”
It was in 1995 that she first began to study and produce etchings. She now lives and works in Dublin, having first come here in 1996 to study English.
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