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Misaki Kawai pouring happiness all over the world one installation at a time

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Date
24 August 2012

Once you get past the wonderfully colourful aesthetic of Misaki’s installations, paintings, drawings, clothes, statues and films, what really hits you is the sheer quantity of it all. In the same way that you may have up-ended your toy box when you were a little younger, it’s as if someone’s tipped Misaki upside-down and these fantastical creations have just come rolling out and bouncing around all over the world.

The best part is, it seems Misaki’s creations are getting bigger! Gone are the small paintings, welcome in the enormous room-filling sculptures and installations that would fill even the world’s biggest grump with a feeling of happiness and utopian joy. Keep going Misaki! Long may you continue to create what no one else possibly could.

A colourful painting of a group of animals and a blue figure in a wooden boat. The side of the boat reads “SEARCH & RESCUE” in blue and red letters.
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Misaki Kawai: Search and Rescue

A person stands in a forest holding a large yellow key next to a giant, bright pink sculpture. The fuzzy structure resembles a house with a small, dark face peering out from a hooded opening at the top.
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Misaki Kawai:

A painting of two people sitting at a long blue desk, surrounded by a cluttered array of colourful, retro computers and monitors. The screens display various abstract images and figures against a dark, starry background.
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Misaki Kawai: Communication Centre

A painting of two stylised big cats against a vibrant red background. A blue lion with a yellow mane leaps over a white tiger with blue stripes.
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Misaki Kawai: Fuzzy Love

A grid of nine photographs showing a colourful, immersive art installation. The exhibition features large-scale sculptures, bold geometric patterns and playful shapes in a bright gallery space.
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Misaki Kawai: installation

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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