Kuniko Maeda
London-based Maeda combines digital technology with traditional craft techniques in an effort to make use of discarded paper. With Ruup & Form gallery at Collect, she is showing three-dimensional artworks made out of paper stiffened using kakishibu, tannin-heavy, fermented persimmon juice traditionally used as a natural dye in Japan, where she grew up, onto which she then laser-cuts patterns. ‘It’s a digital process but somehow creates a natural organic form,’ she says.