Norimatsu Karin

My theme is “The Relationship between Plants and People.”

　I view plants, which are being transformed by scientific technology such as　genome editing, as new entities that evolve with the help of humans, and depicts them in the form of natural history paintings that contribute to scientific research through the creation of machine plants. The landscapes and machine plants that continue to be created at random today are entities with many unexplained aspects. The mechanical plants will be classified in the future as their　characteristics and ecology become more diverse, and a map of the continents will be completed.

　I hope that my legacy (mechanical plants) will be discovered by someone in the near future, just as new species have been discovered, classified, and studied on

actual new continents.

1998　Born in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki, Japan.

2021　Graduated from Kyoto Art course at Kyoto Univercity of the Arts.

2023　Graduated Sculpture/Sculpture course at Kyoto Univercity of the Arts

graduate school.

Now lives at Kyoto and enrolled in doctoral program.

I studying Maria Sibylla Merian (1647~1717) with the idea of bringing the artistic aspect of natural history painting into art.

〈Awards〉

2021　Kyoto Univercity of the Arts Guraduation Works Exhibition,

Honorable mention

〈Selected Exhibitions〉

2021　“ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2021” Shimogamo Saryo, Kyoto

2021　“HANKYU ART WEEKS” Hankyu Men’ s osaka, Osaka

2024　(THISIS)NATURE Exhibition in a shop, Kyoto TakashimayaS.C. Kyoto

〈Speaking engagements〉

2024　“ (THISIS)NATURE×Mai MIYAKE×ArtSticker Vol.1 Artists Talk”