BIO

Sayaka Ono was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1975. She lives and works in Tokyo. In her childhood, she was a sensitive child, sensitive to sound and fond of reading, but she was more interested in her studies than in expressing herself. She graduated from The Chuo University law department.At one point, she wanted to become a lawyer, but around 2000, she came across wool as a material and began to struggle with it on her own. While understanding wet felt, she became interested in textiles and studied dyeing and weaving at Otsuka Textile Design College. Later, in order to study art, she completed the master's program at Musashino Art University. She makes a hats and a bags of the wet felt, a three-dimensional sculptures. Her iconic works are white ceramic-like sculptures in motion. She uses natural white wool for her sculptures. She has experimented with different colors, but says they accentuate the shadows more than any other color. Her work expresses the flow of air, sound, light, water, and various other things that are felt by the five senses. Her works, which are completed through transformation and reconstruction from their first form, are created in dialogue with wool. And her works are hollow. She says this is because she wants to make use of the properties of wool.She regards wool as if it were clay, and sculpts it at will. She is an artist who expresses the folds of her heart through wool.