AZU
KIMURA

Born in Tokyo in 1986 and currently lives in Tokyo. 

Graduated from Musashino Art University,  College of Art and Design.

Using plants and natural objects as materials and motifs, she creates drawings, sculptures, installations, and other works.

With an interest in, and questioning of natural science as her starting point, she projects observations and discoveries in the outdoors within her works.

Through her works, she explores what this place we live in is and what we creatures are, from a familiar and intimate stance.

Major exhibitions include "鉄の風景 (Landscape of Iron)" a drawing reflecting the iron oxide surface-film produced by iron-oxidizing bacteria, BigCi, Australia (2022), and "being there," a group of sculptures made from plant seeds, Nidi gallery, Japan (2021).

In recent years, she has been working on drawings using larval frass (droppings) and chromatography paper.