Yuko Fujita CV

Education
2004-2005 RMIT University, Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Gold and Silver smithing, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2003 Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), Melbourne, Australia
Advanced Diploma of Engineering in Silversmithing and Jewellery
1990 University degree in Bachelor of Letter in Japanese, Japan

Solo Exhibition
2010 “KODAMA- Return to me” solo show, e.g etal, Melbourne, Australia

Group Exhibitions (since 2005)
2018 “Botanica Immortalus”, JamFactory, Adelaide, Australia
2017 “Victorian Craft Award 2017” Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (finalist)
2017 “Contemporary Wearable 2017” Toowoomba Art Galleries, QLD, Australia (finalist)
2016-2017 “Worn Land” Goods Shed, Perth, (Courthouse Gallery, Port Hedland), Australia
2016 “Surrounds” e.g.etal, Melbourne, Australia
2015 “Victorian Craft Award2015” Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (finalist)
2013 “Sense of wonderworks” Wako department store, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia (finalist)
2011-2013 “Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor” artisan, QLD (national touring exhibition)
“Touch, Pause, Engage’ Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2009 “Christmas Rocks” Metalab Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 “Twice bitten” Pieces of Eight, Melbourne, Australia
“W.E. McMillan Collection: Selected Gold and Silversmithing 1961-2007” Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2007 “Moving Parts” Melbourne Fashion Festival, e.g etal, Melbourne, Australia
2006 “Marzee international graduate show 2006”,Galerie Marzee, Holland
“Surface connection” Manningham Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
“City of Hobart Art Prize 2006” Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia (finalist)
2005 “Fresh!” Graduate exhibition, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (finalist)

Awards
2005 Don Begbie Award for Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing
2005 Koodak Award for Top student in Third Year, RMIT University, Melbourne
2003 Best Design Award, Graduate show, NMIT, Melbourne

Public Collections
2005 W.E. McMillan Collection, RMIT University, Melbourne

Publications
2011 ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor’, artisan
2009 “The compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellers 2008” Darling Publications

Residency
2014 Spinifex Studio in WA, organised by FORM in Perth