Yuko Nasu is also a recent London graduate. She finished her MA at Central Saint Martins and has since exhibited in a number of high profile group shows, notably Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Liverpool Biennial and London, 2006) and Art Futures, London in 2007. Nasu paints portraits inspired by the saturation of faces she encounters everyday. These gestural smears of paint almost remove the features from the face, leaving behind a trace of an eye or hint of mouth. Nasu is interested in painting a ‘nobody’, someone who no-one knows, yet reminds the audience of someone who they may know.
