mahlonsugawara

Chimaeric Idols of the Year 3030AD

new mythologies, new horoscopes, new creatures.
Sculptures and Drawings

2025

Chimaeric Idols of the Year 3030AD

Chimaeric Idols of the Year 3030AD, booklets

“Deathly Snail Beetle Under a Shooting Star” shell, sapphire, metal, 2025

“Drosophila Duplex Talisman” bronze, chalcedony, metal, 2025

“Chimaeric Wand 2” ebony wood, 2025

“Preserved Root of a Poultry Apple”, ebony wood, metal, 2025

“An Aspect of the Concatenation” ebony wood, silver, 2025

“A Perfumers Bottle” ebony wood, metal, chalcedony, 2025

“Cosmogony of Gorm, Amulet” carnelian, metal, 2025

“Chimaeric Wand 1” chalcedony, ebony wood, 2025

“Drosophila Scombrus Searching a Bone-Field” chalcedony, metal, 2025

“Gormic Cherubic Plea Amulet” carnelian, bronze, metal, 2025

“Bluestone-Faced Protector of Sea-Spores” Lapis-lazuli, metal, 2025

“Three-Pronged Sea Snail Pendant” metal, carnelian, ebony wood, 2025

“Repository of Flowered Bones”, bronze, metal, ebony wood, cubic zirconia, 2025

“Strange Seed, a Bodiless Bird Hatches” yellow quartz, ebony wood, amber, 2025

“Chihuaha-Crab Contemplates the Tendril” ebony wood, metal, 2025

“Belt-Charm with Aspects of the Concatenation”, metal, 2025

“The Concatenation on Gorms Finger”, chalcedony, metal, 2025

“Netsuke in the Form of a Concatenation” ebony wood, 2025

“A New Horoscope of the Year 3030AD, the sky or a petri-dish” charcoal, fabriano paper, 2025 Drawing

Archive

assorted drawings and paintings

2023-2024

Jewellery

assorted rings, bracelets, and necklaces

CV

Mahlon Sugawara

Currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

mahlonsugawara1@gmail.com Instagram: @mahlonsugawara

Website

Mahlon Sugawara works with wood, stone, and metal, exploring cultural hybridity and folkloric symbolism through science-fiction.

Education

2022: Foundation Art and Design, Buckinghamshire New University

High Wycombe, UK

2022-present: BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow, UK

Group Shows

2023: “Glue Gun”, Glue Factory,

2023: Cudebear, French Street Gallery,

2023: Corpus Delecti, Hypha studios

2023: An Active Archival, The Vic

2024: The Burrow at Hidden Alley

2024: Glue Gun 2, Pipe Factory

2024: Buggin Out, Anniesland

2024: The Burrow at Empire Film Studio

2025: Burns Street Studios

2025: Heirloom, Stow College

Selected Interviews and Conversations

Exploring art and collaboration:

Exploring Art And Collaboration - WHITE WALLS X M.SUGA

886 Royal Mint Campaign
https://886.royalmint.com/blogs/the-journal/mahlon-sugawara

About

My practice explores cultural hybridity through object-making, using speculative fiction to examine how symbols transform across different contexts. Working with figurative wood and stone carvings, drawings, and jewellery, I create objects that exist between traditions, constantly evolving.

Fabulation fills the gaps between inherited narratives, reimagining folklore with chimerical figures and shifting landscapes. These invented stories become a way to process identity as something fluid, where meaning isn’t fixed but constantly reinterpreted. The chimaera is reimagined as something adaptive rather than monstrous, reflecting the way cultural heritage is reshaped through time and distance.

Craft is central to this process. By carving, drawing, and assembling, I engage with family histories while allowing space for new interpretations. The objects I make function like fragments of unwritten myths, holding both personal and collective resonance. Folklore, in its simplest form, helps us navigate change, through my work, I extend that function, using speculative storytelling to explore identity as an ongoing act of reinvention.