Title: Daughter
Size: 40cm x 30cm
Medium: Pencil on Paper

Price: £400

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About the Artist


Komachi Goto

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Biography

I paint and draw whatever had caught my attention,  and I want to know behind the scene of the stories.  I am looking for that invisible  background and the history of the subjects that intrigued me.

Education

1992-95 City & Guild Art School, Kennington, Foundation Course and 1st year of painting

1995-1999 Slade School of Fine Art College UCL. BA degree 

1999-2001 Glasgow School of Art. MFA degree.

1999 & 2000 Hidatakayama scholarship awards.

Exhibitions

1996 - Big Issue Group show London U.K.

1999 - Drawing Exhibition, Samuel Jewel, Oxford Street London

2002 - Hunterian Gallery NY Group show U.S.A

2002 Solo Show  at  Lilac Gallery  *colour*  Sapporo Japan

2007-2010 Popup Gallery "Komachi", Edinburgh

2015 Best Drawing Prize, East Linton Art competition

2017 Best Drawing Prize, East Linton Art Competition

2017 “Father studying against forgetfulness” selected for the catalogue in Paisley Art

2018 September, 1st prize, 50th East Linton Art Competition

2019 November, ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary Winner The Mall Gallery London

2020 March, Jackson’s Painting Prize, Long-list online

2020 October, Scottish Portrait Award, Long-list online

2020 November, ING Discerning Eye, online exhibition

2021 May, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Gallery, London

2021 July, Figurative Art Now, The Mall Gallery, London

2021 September, The Moth Magazine

 2021 Winter, Presence, The Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay (invited)

2021 December, Resonating Narrative, Whitespace, Edinburgh.

2022 February, Counterplan, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh.

2022 April, Spring Collection,  Zenwalls Gallery, Peebles Scotland.

2022 November, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Gallery, London

2022 November, Progressive Drawing and Workshop, Drawing and Movement.

2022 December, Whitespace, Edinburgh

Upcoming Exhibitions

2023 ESBAT, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh

2023 Summer Show, Edinburgh

2023 Portrait - Fidra Fine Art, Gullane, Scotland (invited)

Publications

2020 March/April - Easel Words, independent visual art magazine The Jackdaw magazine by Davide Lee

2022 November - Wee Book of Progressive Drawing