Kaori Homma

Kaori Homma is originally from Japan and holds a BA in Fine Art from Tokyo University of Art and Design and an MA in Fine Art Sculpture from Chelsea School of Art. She is based in London and her works are in both private and public collections. She has exhibited widely in Japan, the US, Europe and the UK.

Kaori is one of the co-founders of Art Action UK, a platform for artists’ creative and critical responses to global crisis. She is also a board member of Morphe Arts, and on the Steering Committee of Art for All at Brockley Open Studios. She teaches at Central Saint Martins and Camberwell Schools of Art.

Kaori has initiated collaborative projects—dealing with notions of ‘meridian’—connecting artists, curators and audiences which are developing internationally. Her current project is a collaboration between the artist and StreetRoad Artists Space in USA, exploring the notion of boundaries and the peripheral; belonging, and alienation. Conceived by the artist as an ephemeral work, ‘Homma Meridian’ references cartographic demarcations and the historic power structures of Greenwich Prime Meridian offering multiple re-positionings of this line of empire.

Kaori Homma’s multi-site Homma Meridian project asks us to reconsider and to challenge the cartographic demarcations that govern so much of our world and that we so frequently take for granted. With the deceptively simple move of ‘repositioning’ the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the artist radically shifts our perspective, as well as our sure footing, both figuratively and even literally.

At each of its iterations (which have included Budapest, Margate, Wales, Paris, London and Pennsylvania) the artist and participating audiences draw an impermanent line running north-south, always using ephemeral materials, as a substitute for the ‘Prime’ meridian. The project’s act of displacement and its ephemerality work to highlight the imaginary nature of boundaries and to shake up our perception of our position on the earth as it spins on its tilted axis.

The theme of the ephemeral is echoed in the work we have at Frank. They are ‘fire etchings’ or Aburidashi, in small, variable editions, hand-painted using invisible ink to render the image, before the paper is exposed to fire, revealing that which had been concealed.

For information about her one-person show at Frank in August 2025, Ness, check our Gallery page.