With Ayako Rokkaku’s paintings, it can be hard to know where to look. The Japanese artist’s canvases, which she paints using her fingers, are a fantastical medley of bright colors swirling around alongside cutesy characters. It’s rare that a square inch of her paintings doesn’t smash together disparate colors.

Ayako Rokkaku’s first lamp is every bit as vibrant as her art, making it more of a light-up sculpture than a typical light fixture. The lamp brings a regular character in Rokkaku’s paintings to life, their face and hands poking out from behind splotches of pink, yellow, orange, and blue “paint.” 

And to cast light, little cat-like figures dotted around the lamp’s uneven surface glow when the lamp turns on. It’s a funkiness befitting such an eccentric lamp. 

Only 300 lamps will be made available via a raffle on the Hong Kong art platform DDTStore as part of Hong Kong art week 2026, where Rokkaku is making her solo debut.

The lamps cost $5,100 HKD (around $650), an attractive price point for collectors who sometimes have to dish out seven-figure sums for Rokkaku’s paintings.

The artist, who cites Jackson Pollock as an early influence, is believed to be the best-selling Japanese painter of her generation, gaining international acclaim over the past half-decade for her methods of abstracting Japanese kawaii culture, which centres around a fixation with cuteness.

But while best known for her paintings, Rokkaku’s practice has evolved to include equally inventive sculptures that were a focal point of recent exhibitions hosted globally from Berlin’s KÖNIG GALERIE to LONG MUSEUM in China. Now, her first-ever lamp brings that whimsy home.

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