June Mineyama-Smithson
London-based Japanese artist/graphic designer/lecturer on a mission to spread optimism through bold colours and shapes. She is interested in combining art and science to find the Optimum Optimism to promote wellbeing, particularly in a form of public art and large paintings.
June Mineyama-Smithson (MAMIMU) is a London-based Japanese artist and graphic designer. Her bold and playful public art installation “Electric Catwalk”, a 60-metre floor mural in West London, was a headline piece for Kensington + Chelsea Art Week 2025. Her acrylic painting collection “Art of Reclaiming Focus” explores the power of intention in a world ruled by distractions, debuted at Clerkenwell Design Week 2025. She also exhibited at the prestigious ING Discerning Eye exhibition, selected by former BBC art critic Will Gompertz.
Her interest in combining art and science to explore ‘Optimum Optimism’ led to a collaboration with neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart, resulting in a series of on-screen idents for ITV.
She is passionate about the intersection of art and science in promoting wellbeing, and recently hosted a panel discussion “Art as Medicine” at London Art Fair alongside Dr Tara Swart and painter Dr Charley Peters.
June is also a lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of the Arts London, a D&AD judge, D&AD New Blood Jury President, and a speaker at Design London, Birmingham Design Festival, and Design Manchester. Her bold and joyful work has been featured internationally in Creative Boom, Fast Company, Design Milk, South China Morning Post, and Cow Parade Niseko.
Interests
Art for Wellbeing/Public Art/Urban Intervention/Placemaking/Collective Optimism
