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 are a pair of dented dustbins, their colourful designs reproduced in exquisite detail, one stuffed with ceramic renderings of cardboard boxes Work 19 – G 2019 (illustrated), the other filled to the brim with no fewer than 90 ‘aluminium’ cans Work 21 – C4 2021.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.