About me
Haruka is an illustrator and storyteller inspired by history and travel. Old maps, railway trucks, folktales, and shabby bric-a-brac as well as historical museum collections are all important sources for building her world. In her daily life, she observes people’s peculiarities, their desires and obsessions to create her characters. Her imagination connects these fragments of real life and historical elements, and then creates stories. She tells these stories in book format or as sets of prints, and also applies them to everyday goods like tableware and toys to let her world reach out to us.
Degrees
MA Communication Art and Design
Royal College of Art, London, 2009
BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation
Kingston University, London, 2007
Clients
Mizho International plc
Herefordshire Magazine
Royal College of Art
Arc13
Exhibitions
Illustrative Degree Show, ÏMA Design Village, Berlin, 2009.
Circus, Crane and Tortoise, London, 2009.
AOI Image33, London College of Communication, London, 2009.
Edition / Power in Numbers, Bodhi Gallery, London, 2009.
Untold Stories, Royal College of Art, London, 2008.
AOI Image32, London College of Communication, London,2008.
London Art Market, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, 2008.
Awards
Highly Recommended, McMillan Children’s Book Prize, 2009
Selected for the digital directory “e-Creative London 2009” by art-s-talker (www.art-s-talker.com)
Silver Award, New Talent Image 32, Association of Illustrators, 2007
Finalist, Ozu Printmaking Post Card Award, 2007