43mm Issue 6 from TZIPAC

Hidetoshi Yamada
Please share with us a bit about
yourself and your journey as an artist?
I started to work as an Artist in the
beginning in 90’s. The most influential
thing for my art work and way of living
in 90’s was ‘Travel. I traveled cross
Asian and European countries by road
in the mid 90’s.
After my first big journey, I backed to
Tokyo and planed to move to work in
London. I moved in London in 1999.
I had a number of exhibitions and
collaboration works in London for
4 years and half. My experiences of
working and life in London gave me
creative spirits and diverse ways of
thinking. I had to back to Japan in the
autumn 2003, because for my visa
problem. Since then I have worked in
Tokyo and collaborate with the creators
all around the world.
You are the first non-photographic
artist to be featured in our magazine, so
we would love to ask lots of questions
about how your creative mind works.
The first obvious question is, how does
your mind actually work?
What do you see, envisage, feel?
What, where, who give you
inspirations, and ideas?
Mainly my artistic work focused into
paint and drawing by using basic
materials such as Acrylic, watercolours
and oil, etc... The most of my creative
inspiration comes from my daily
life. And my point of view has been
influenced more social matters and
journalism, in especially after 3.11
earthquake Tsunami and Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. I love
diverse culture and the places where
coexist people have different cultural
background. Ordinal and people
struggle always gives me inspiration. I
recreate and paint the theme through
my artistic view, which I have got in
daily life. I am looking at the place
where I live and somewhere else for
trying to see more diversified ideas.
© Hidetoshi Yamada