Commemorating the publication of “Mountmellick Embroidery”

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 13:00–18:00
Wednesday 26 November, 10:00–17:00

Come and spend a little while with white threads! 

Mountmellick Embroidery is the Ireland’s traditional white thread embroidery. Flowers and natural motifs rendered in pure white thread exude a quiet, gentle presence.

To mark the publication of Japan’s first dedicated book on Mountmellick embroidery, we present an exhibition of works featured within its pages.

Why not come to Mimosa Gallery to experience the warmth of handcrafted white thread embroidery?

Mariko Kimura 

10 – 24 January, 2026

To be touched by emulsion 

To let it be a sensitive skin incarnating emotions

To let it be an embodiment of nostalgia

Artist Statement

As a photosensitive epileptic artist, my approach to photosensitive emulsion is rooted in a very personal take on how light is absorbed in the photographic process. Self-taught and mentored by masters of the craft such as Isao Yamada, Rafael Cuevas and chemist Goran Ahlsen, I have taken a deep dive into the craft of film processing and print making.

Experimentation is at the core of my practice along with precise understanding of the traditional and classical artform. Deriving from the conventional pictures to go into the rendering of the chemical reactions, my images are meant to tap into the emotional depth of the viewer. I aim not to reproduce reality but to depict what our brain remembers, how our emotions taint our vision, what are the textures of our memories.

BIOGRAPHY

MaLo Sutra Fish is a French visual artist currently based in Paris, born in 1985. Her practice is set between the USA and France and founded on her passion for film as a format and material through photography and filmmaking. 

While image composition and editing are central in her approach, her focus on chemicals and lab techniques are the common threads between her film practice and photographic work. Despite using digital cameras or digital edits for some work, her core practice revolves around the defense of the analogue art form, particularly the developing of films and the making of prints. Her passion to play, experiment, investigate has no limit; and she embraces all imperfections of cameras, lenses and films.