Yoko Izawa _Biography

Artist in Residence

2004/10 - School of Jewellery, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
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Education

2001-2003
  Royal College of Art MA ;
  Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery, London
1998-2001
  Kent Institute of Art and Design BA hons ;
  Silversmithing, Goldsmithing and Jewellery Design, Rochester
(2000/3-6)
  studied at Fachhochschule Trier, Germanyas an exchange student
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Employment History

2000 summer
  Worked for Mappin & Webb (to produce the prize winning design)
1991-1998
  Worked as a full time packaging designer at Alfa Box
   (packaging design office, Japan)
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Exhibitions

2007/10  "Origin: The London Craft Fair" at Somerset House
2007/6-7  "Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007" Jewellery Jerwood Space 
2007/8   "Dazzle Edingburgh" Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2007/7   "Yoko Izawa solo show" Contemporary Art JARFO Kyoto, Japan
2007/3 - 6   "30 X 30" YSP Visitor Centre, West Bretton Wakefield 
2006/11-2007/1  "10 years on" The Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery
2006/11-2007/1  "Dazzle in London" The Royal National Theatre, London
2006/11   "Made in the Middle" Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
2006/10  "Etsuko Sonobe & Yoko Izawa" The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2006/10  "Origin The London Craft Fair" Week2, Somerset House, London
2006/9-10  "Tsutsumu (Wrap) exhibiton" Itami Craft Center, Hyogo, Japan
2006/8   "Dazzle Edinburgh" Theatre Atrium, The Traverse Theatre
2006/3-6  "All that glitters is not gold" Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Belgium
2006/3-5  "Showcase" in the new V&A shop
2006/3   "Collect Collections" represented by Lesley Craze Gallery
2006/1-3  "Gallery The Yard" Netherland
2006/2   "Collect" represented by Lesley Craze Gallery
                 Victoria & Albert Hall, London
2005/11-2006/1   "Shock of the New" Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2005/11-2006/1   "Dazzle" Royal National Theatre, London
2005/10   "Chelsea Crafts Fair 2005" Chelea Old Town Hall, London
2005/7-10  "Follow Me" Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery
2005/7-9  "Arttextiles 3" ArtSway Gallery, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire
2005/7-8  "Contemporary British Jewellery" Galeria Bielak, Krakow, Poland
2005/6-7  "Crafts Council Shop at the V&A Celebrating 30 Years"
2005/5-6  "Rarefind Summer" New Ashgate Gallery
2005/5    "Dazzle" Glasgow 2005
2005/2-4  "Celluloid"  Royal Birmingham Sociery of Artists, Bimingham
2005/1-3  "SHOWCASE: Contemporary Art for the UK"
               City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 
2004/11   "SOFA", represented by The David Collection, Chicago
2004/11   "Designers Jewellers Group Christmas Exhibition"
               Barbican Centre, London
2004/11   "Dazzle", National Theatre, London
2004/10   "Chelsea Crafts Fair" Chelea Old Town Hall, London
2004/ 7   "One Year On", Business Design Centre, London
2004/ 6   "SOFA", represented by The David Collection, New York
2004/ 5   "Legnica Jubilee Exhibition", The Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland
2004/4-6   "Jewellery Unlimited", The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
2004/2-4   "New Faces 2004", Crafts Council Shop at the V& A, London
2003/11-1  "All That Glisters Is Not Gold", Sixchapelrow Contemporary Art, Bath
2003/11   "Itami International Craft Competition -Jewellery- ",
                The Museum of Arts Crafts Itami, Japan
2003/ 8   "Recent Graduates",Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Holland
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Awards

2007
    Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007: Jewellery --- "shortlisted"
2004
   Chelsea Crafts Fair 2004  "First Time Exhibitors Award"
2003
   International Craft Competition -Jewellery-, Japan "Good Material Award"
   Nicole Stöber Memorial Award
   Goldsmiths Craft & Design Council Craftmanship and Design Award 
   --- Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces --- "Commended"
2002
   Mappin & Webb Jewellery Design Project "First Prize"
   Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Craftmanship and Design Award 
   --- Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces --- "Commended"
   --- Fashion Jewellers Mounted Designs --- "Commended"
2001
   Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Craftmanship and Design Award
   --- Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces --- "Commended"
   Itami International Craft Competition -Jewellery-, Japan "Commended"
2000
   Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Craftmanship and Design Award
   --- Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces --- "First Prize"
   --- Silversmiths (senior) ---  "Second Prize"
   --- Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces ---  "Commended"
1999
   Itami International Craft Competition -Jewellery-, Japan "Commended"
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Collection

2003
   Royal College of Art
   The Alice and Louis Koch Collection
   Contemporary Art Society
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Commission

2004
   For Janice Blackburn, curator