About
Yuki Aruga is a Japanese–British artist working across painting and decorative arts. She studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art, Camberwell College of Arts and City & Guilds of London Art School, where she was subsequently awarded a year-long Decorative Arts Fellowship supported by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers.
Since completing the fellowship, historic craft techniques including verre églomisé, gilding, japanning and faux painted finishes have become integral to her practice. Her work draws on East Asian philosophies and European still-life painting and religious iconography to explore themes of identity through a distinctly cross-cultural lens.
Aruga’s paintings and decorative surfaces are characterised by stillness, precision and material sensitivity, reflecting a dialogue between Japanese aesthetics and Western craft traditions.
