Painter and draughtsman, born in Mie, Japan, who gained a bachelor’s degree in fine art at Goldsmiths’ College, 1992–5. Exhibitions included White Trash and Multiple Orgasm, both at Lost-in-Space, 1995; New Contemporaries at Tate Gallery, Liverpool, and Camden Arts Centre, 1996; and dumbpop, at Jerwood Gallery, and Die Young Stay Pretty, at ICA, both 1998–9. For that exhibition she selected her subjects from glossy magazines and created “vast simplified iconic portraits of her heroes and heroines”.