Kimiyo Mishima creates ceramic replicas of everyday objects that closely resemble the real thing. She describes her work as ‘breakable printed matter’ – copies of throwaway objects, rendered with such beauty and fragility that they must be handled with care.

Known for her wry humour and material sophistication, Mishima first came to prominence in Japan as a painter in the late 1950s and 60s, collaging newspaper and magazine clippings to oil on canvas as a play on the emerging consumer culture. In 1971, she turned to ceramics, crafting objects that re‑create ordinary products such as newspapers, manga, strips of film and post boxes in ways that mimic the originals, focusing on sources of information that, while useful, are not highly valued.

Here, Mishima presents a selection of ceramic works from across her career, including a cluster of paper shopping bags and a stack of 1960s single-colour handbills, buckling and folding like cheap paper. A group of fruit box works contain utterly convincing branded packaging, in turn packed with individually cast and detailed ceramic newsprint pages. Other works include a pair of dented dustbins, one stuffed with ceramic renderings of cardboard boxes, the other filled to the brim with no fewer than 90 ‘aluminium’ cans, their colourful designs reproduced in exquisite detail.

For Mishima, waste is a sign of overproduction. In beautifully crafted, deliberately comical handmade replicas of consumer detritus, she satirises the throwaway mentality of a society that generates more than it can sustainably process.