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Ikuyo Fujita 藤田育代
Ikuyo Fujita 藤田育代
	Final Touch for Strawberry Jam II
Born	Tokyo, Japan
Movement	Pop art

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Ikuyo Fujita（藤田育代 Fujita Ikuyo）is a Japanese artist: she works primarily in needle felt painting and mogol (pipe cleaner) art. She is especially known for rabbit and cat art. Her kawaii style needle felt paintings are popular among rabbit lovers in Japan.^[1]^[2]

She is also an art instructor and an author of art instruction book. Her book is translated into Chinese.^[2]

Life and career

Little Expo#1 at Kanda Amulet, Tokyo Japan (2008)

be my friend -ともだちになりたいな (2007 needle felt painting) / Closeup

Ikuyo Fujita was born in Tokyo, Japan. She started to needle felt painting in 2004. Her early works were portraits of her pet, Netherland Dwarf Rabbit.^{[1]^[2]} Her rabbit passed away in 2010: nevertheless, rabbits in her arts are still representations of her Netherland Dwarf. ^{^[2]}

Fujita's is a largely self-taught artist although her mother, an avid amateur handicrafts maker, showed her basics of the craftings. Fujita played with her mother's art materials and created her own arts as she grownup.^[1]^[2]In 2010, she published her artworks online^[3]. She had a solo exhibition in New York.^[4]

In 2012, Active Corporation in Japan published her rabbit art calendar and postcard: the calendar and the postcard were sold in major department stores in Japan:^[5]^[6] in the same year, her art instruction book was published by Magazine Land publishing in Japan. She started teaching art workshops in Japan Handicraft Association and Mitsukoshi cultural center.^[7]^[8]

In 2014, her art instruction book was translated and published in Taiwan, Hongkong, and Macau.^[9] Her artwork, lucky clover, was awarded new artist of the year at Kokusai Shiyoga Taisiyouten (Tokyo International Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix Exhibition) in Japan.^[10]

In 2017, Active Corporation published her cat art postcards.^[11]

She is currently living in Tokyo.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

・2013 Ikuyo Fujita's ~ A Rabbit's Needleworks II~ (藤田育代展～うさぎの針仕事Ⅱ～) at Musashino Gallary in Koganei, Tokyo Japan・2012 Cute and puffy rabbits art exhibition (ふわっとかわいいうさぎ展) at AMULET in Oshiage, Tokyo, Japan.

・2010 Love Cats and Rabbits at Ouchi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York USA

・2009 Ikuyo Fujita's ~A Rabbit's Needleworks~ (藤田育代展～うさぎの針仕事) at AMULET in Kanda, Tokyo Japan

Selected group exhibitions

・2017 SHIBUYA ZOO at Shibuya SEIBU, Tokyo Japan

・2017 UMEDA ZOO at Osaka Hankyu Umeda, Osaka Japan

・2016 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #12 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2016 "Nyandarake vol.2" at Tokyo Sanbou Center, Tokyo Japan

・2015 Novelties of Artist at Shibuya SEIBU 100IDEES, Tokyo Japan

・2015 The forest of hedgehog and rabbit at TOKYU HANDS Ikebukuro, Tokyo Japan

・2014 Tokyo International Painting and Calligraphy, Grand Prix Exhibition at TOKYO MTROLTAN ART MUSEUM, Tokyo Japan

・2014 Malta Exhibition at Cavalieri Art Hotel, Republic of Malta

・2014 Artexpo New York 2014, New York USA

・2014 Contemporary Art Exhibition at Bulgari Hotel & Residences London, London UK

・2013 CONTEMPORARY ART BELEM 2013 at Lisbon Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon Portugal

・2013 Brandenburg at Neues Rathaus, Teltow Germany

・2013 Fountain Art Fair at the Armory, New York USA

・2012 Hotel de Chiado, Lisbon Portugal

・2012 Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin Garmany

・2012 BARCELONA SHOWCASE at Casa Batllo, Barcelona Spain

・2012 Berlin Summer Festival at Berlin at German-Japanese Association Berlin Clubhaus der Freien, Berlin Germany

・2012 Ren-ais-sance at NY Strange Loop Gallery, New York USA

・2012 Fountain Art Fair at the Armory, New York USA

・2011 Art Now Fair Miami, Florida USA

・2011 Montreux Art Gallery, Montreux Switzerland

・2011 Permanent Exhibition at Blumeninsel, Basel Switzerland

・2010 KURI KURI EXHIBITION #7 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2010 100 ARTIST EXHIBITION at NY Ouchi Gallery, New York USA

・2009 KURI KURI EXHIBITION #6 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2009 GEISAI #12 at TOKYO BIG SIGHT, Tokyo Japan

・2008 MOON ＆ RABBIT EXHIBITION at KANARIYA, Osaka Japan

・2008 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #5 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2007 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #4 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2006 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #3 at AMULET, Tokyo Japan

・2005 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #2 at cocodeco, Tokyo Japan

・2004 KURIKURI EXHIBITION #1 at cocodeco, Tokyo Japan

Publications

How to Make Cute and Puffy Rabbit Needle Felt Arts / Magazine Land publishing (ふわっとかわいい羊毛フェルトのうさぎ刺しゅう&雑貨 -マガジンランド) 2012 ISBN:4905054648
Make Easy Wool Felt Art ~18 Japanese Rabbits / Shānyuè wénhuà publication, Taiwan (羊毛氈easy戳！18款日式質感兔子刺繍＆雜貨 - 山岳文化) 2014 ISBN:978-986-248-386-2
How to make rabbits with color mogol (カラーモールで作るキュートラビット) / Life with Rabbits Magazine (うさぎと暮らす Usagi to kurasu）No. 68 / Magazine Land publishing P38~39 May 2018 ASIN: B07CF6WDYS
Bonus postcards (strawberry jam Ⅰ, strawberry jam Ⅱ) / Life with Rabbit Magazine (うさぎと暮らす Usagi to kurasu）No. 66 / Magazine Land publishing November 2017 ASIN: B000YESVI0
Bonus postcards (winter vacation) / Life with Rabbit Magazine (うさぎと暮らす Usagi to kurasu）No. 58 / Magazine Land publishing November 2015 ASIN: B005D24TO8
Featured artist (artworks: "fleecy clouds", "needlework of the rabbit", "marshmallow babies" ) / Time of Rabbits Magazine (うさぎの時間)　No.15 / Seibundou Sin-cousya publishing (誠文堂新光社刊) P15 Apri; 2015 ISBN:978-4-416-61567-6
Ikuyo Fujita Interview / Life with Rabbit Magazine (うさぎと暮らす Usagi to kurasu）No. 42/ Magazine Land publishing November 2011 ASIN: B0062O0LOI
Handicraft techniques / Cute Handicrafts 100 (かわいい手づくり雑貨 100のつくり方) Futami Publishing (二見書房) November 2011 P58,60 ISBN:978-4-576-10172-9
Featured artist (artworks: "nap", "first impression", "grooming") / Moe Magazine (MOE) Hakusen Publishing (白泉社) January 2009 P62 ISBN:4910187870197
Featured artist (artworks:"relaxing", "nighty nighty" tapestry, "my little flower garden", "the garden with an arch", "I'm not angry", "be my friend", "the profile of the thinking rabbit" ) / Cute Handicrafts 1000 (かわいい手づくり雑貨 1000の手芸) Futami publishing (二見書房) October 2008 P134,135 ISBN:978-4-576-08168-7
Handicraft techniques / Kuri Kuri's Basic Handicarfting (別冊くりくり手づくりのきほん) Futami publishing (二見書房) 2006 July P59～66 ISBN:4-576-06055-4
Featured artist (artworks: "the profile of the thinking rabbit", "welcome to my garden", "nighty nighty", " relaxing") / Kuri Kuri Magazine (くりくり No.3) Toui publication (糖衣社) No. 3 October 2004 P3～5 ISBN:4-576-04213-0

Media Appearance

・Kon-nichiwa Itto-rokken (Hello Kanto in Japanese) 「こんにちはいっと６けん」 , 2011 NHK Tokyo, Japan

References

^ ^a ^b "NHK Tokyo "Kon-nichiwa Itto-rokken" (NHK東京, こんにちはいっと６けん) Jan. 12, 2011". NHK Archives Library, Kawaguchi, Saitams-ken, Japan.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Living with House Rabbits Magazine / うさぎと暮らす No. 42 (October 2011). Fujita Ikuyo Interview. Japan: Magazine Land Publishing. pp. P78 ~ 81.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "ikuyo fujita". www.ikuyofujita.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
^ "NY ArtBeat event archive". {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Check date values in: |archive-date= (help)
^ Active Corporation, 2013 Calendar catalog (May 2012). "Ikuyo Fujita calender". Active Corporation Co., LTD.: P8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Active Corporation, 2012 Everday catalog (June 2012). "Felt art rabbit postcard". Active Corporation Co., LTD. 30: p2. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Paintings Workshop 藤田育代羊毛フェルト画「うさぎのバレリーナ」 (October 2013). "Art Workshop Listings". Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.
^ Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Paiting Workshop 藤田育代羊毛フェルト画「草原の茶色いうさぎ」 (September 2014). "Art Workshop Listings". Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.
^ "Heliopolis culture group / 日月文化出版股份有限公司".
^ 9th annual international art awards artworks catalog (第九回・国際書画大賞展作品集). Japan International Art Institution (NPO法人日本國際藝術研究院 ). 2014. pp. P17・P91.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Active Corporation, 2017 Everyday catalog (December 2016). "Felt Art Cat postcard". Active Corporation Co., LTD. 55: p1. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

外部リンク

[:0-1] "NHK Tokyo "Kon-nichiwa Itto-rokken" (NHK東京, こんにちはいっと６けん) Jan. 12, 2011". NHK Archives Library, Kawaguchi, Saitams-ken, Japan.

[:1-2] Living with House Rabbits Magazine / うさぎと暮らす No. 42 (October 2011). Fujita Ikuyo Interview. Japan: Magazine Land Publishing. pp. P78 ~ 81.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] "ikuyo fujita". www.ikuyofujita.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.

[4] "NY ArtBeat event archive". {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Check date values in: |archive-date= (help)

[5] Active Corporation, 2013 Calendar catalog (May 2012). "Ikuyo Fujita calender". Active Corporation Co., LTD.: P8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[6] Active Corporation, 2012 Everday catalog (June 2012). "Felt art rabbit postcard". Active Corporation Co., LTD. 30: p2. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[7] Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Paintings Workshop 藤田育代羊毛フェルト画「うさぎのバレリーナ」 (October 2013). "Art Workshop Listings". Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.

[8] Ikuyo Fujita - Needle Felt Paiting Workshop 藤田育代羊毛フェルト画「草原の茶色いうさぎ」 (September 2014). "Art Workshop Listings". Japan Handicraft Association /（社）日本手芸協会.

[9] "Heliopolis culture group / 日月文化出版股份有限公司".

[10] 9th annual international art awards artworks catalog (第九回・国際書画大賞展作品集). Japan International Art Institution (NPO法人日本國際藝術研究院 ). 2014. pp. P17・P91.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[11] Active Corporation, 2017 Everyday catalog (December 2016). "Felt Art Cat postcard". Active Corporation Co., LTD. 55: p1. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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