Prior to completing her MA at The Royal College of Art in 2005, Yukako Shibata was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2002). Shibata has won several awards for her work including the Chadwyck-Healey Prize for Painting at City & Guilds, London, and the Davis Langdon Award from the RCA. Shibata’s work looks at the fugitive colours of the natural world. Fascinated by complex interplay of light, she is interested in painting as a mode for investigating our perception of the environments that surround us. Exploring the relationship between surface, colour, light and form, Shibata creates semi-abstract sculptural works that crystallize the paradox between functional and meditative forms of making. Shibata has featured in ‘Swan Song’ curated by Rowena Chiu, hosted by Michael Pritchett (2010).