Yuki Aruga Japanese-British, b. 1985

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Yuki Aruga

Informed by the artist's mixed Japanese-British heritage, the work of Yuki Aruga explores themes of loss, longing, and identity. Drawing from nature and 16th-18th century still life traditions, her paintings combine the traditional and the contemporary by adopting techniques of the Old Masters to create paintings from digitally rendered collages.

Her compositions often feature suspended subjects in dark, expansive, void-like spaces. Blending Western materials with Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetics, her works exist between abstraction and figuration, presence and absence, the real and the virtual; all acting as a metaphor for her bicultural identity.

 

Yuki studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and Camberwell College of Arts, where she was inspired by her training as a taxidermist and florist. She completed an MA at City & Guilds, receiving The Painter-Stainers Decorative Arts Fellowship. Yuki has exhibited across Europe and East Asia, and is an Honorary Freeman and curator at The Worshipful Company of Painters & Stainers.

Works
  • Gyre
    Gyre, 2025
    Polymer clay, 24 ct gold, wood, glass jar
    26 x 26 x 50 cm
    10.24 x 10.24 x 19.69 in
  • Little Petals 03
    Little Petals 03, 2025
    Oil on gesso panel
    18 x 13 cm
    7.09 x 5.12 in
  • Little Petals 07
    Little Petals 07, 2025
    Oil on gesso panel
    18 x 18 cm
    7.09 x 7.09 in
  • Little Petals 08
    Little Petals 08, 2025
    Oil on gesso panel
    18 x 18 cm
    7.09 x 7.09 in
  • Little Petals 09
    Little Petals 09, 2025
    Oil on gesso panel
    18 x 18 cm
    7.09 x 7.09 in
  • Retrograde
    Retrograde, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    100 x 100 cm
    39.4 x 39.4 in
  • Fed by the Sun
    Fed by the Sun, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    100 cm / 39.4 in diameter
  • Rose Study i
    Rose Study i, 2023
    23 ct gold + enamel on glass
    36 x 17 cm
    14.17 x 6.69 in
  • The Moon at Dawn
    The Moon at Dawn, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    140 x 110 cm
    55.1 x 43.3 in
  • Without End
    Without End, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    120 cm / 47.2 in diameter
  • Axis
    Axis, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    120 cm / 47.2 in diameter
  • Florid
    Florid, 2022
    Polymer clay, 24 ct gold, acrylic on wood, glass jar
    22 x 20 x 20 cm
    8.66 x 7.87 x 7.87 cm
  • Orbit [i]
    Orbit [i], 2022
    Oil on canvas
    80 cm / 31.5 in diameter
  • Satellite
    Satellite, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    100 cm / 39.4 in diameter
  • Sundogs
    Sundogs, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    110 cm / 43.3 in diameter
  • Echo
    Echo, 2021
    Oil on linen
    77 x 96 cm
    30.3 x 37.8 in
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