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| SHIBUSA - Extracting Beauty Edited by Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens About the Book Shibusa – Extracting Beauty celebrates a number of artistic endeavours:
music, painting and the skill of making
in
general with particular reflection
upon Japanese
aesthetics. The hand-cut paper Katagami stencil: a beautiful utilitarian object
once used to apply decoration on to
Japanese
kimonos, is used as a poignant symbol – the ‘hand-made
machine’ - by Adkins and Dickens both within the production
of paintings and sound compositions
and as
a thematic link throughout the book. Selections of works based on Japanese themes by Pip Dickens are on this page: 'Shibusa' series of paintings. Leverhulme Report at Leverhulme Trust website: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news Sign up for more information on the exhibition, book or contact artist. |
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| About the Authors Monty Adkins is a sound artist, performer and lecturer in digital music. He read music at Pembroke College, Cambridge and is currently Professor of Electronic Music and Head of Research in the Music Department at the University of Huddersfield. He has published articles on the aesthetics of digital music, painting and visual art and has recorded five solo CDs of his sonic art. http://www.montyadkins.com/ Pip Dickens was the Leverhulme Trust Award Artist in Residence at the University of Huddersfield, Department of Music 2010-11. She has a Masters in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art (UCL); was shortlisted for the NatWest Art Prize in 1997 and was the recipient of the Jeremy Cubitt Prize (Slade School of Fine Art). Dickens won the Edna Lumb Art Travel Prize in 1995 where she undertook research in Iceland. She was a nominee for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009 and shortlisted for the Celeste Painting Prize 2009. She is an independent professional artist. http://www.pip-dickens.com/ Contributing Authors Roy Exley is a freelance art critic and writer. He has widely published journal articles exhibition reviews, book reviews, features and interviews and has also worked in collaboration with Art Galleries and Artists to write essays and texts for exhibition catalogues and press releases. His writings have been included in artists monographs, published compilations and surveys of contemporary art and photography. Over this period he has developed a comprehensive knowledge of the contemporary art world, in terms of both its organisational dynamics and within the framework of critical theory and the continuing evolution of art theory. He has a personal interest in Japanese craft and culture and electronic music. http://www.royexley.co.uk Makoto Mori is a kimono designer based in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in 1986 and studied at Kyoto City University of Arts. Mori inherited his family business and fuses traditional Kimono design knowledge and skills inherited from his father with state of the art computer graphics technologies. He also studied at Doshisha Business School under Professor Yuzo Murayama and completed a thesis on the comparative study of the relationship between Japan's heritage industries and 'Cool-Japan' movement. He is currently working on designing new-style kimono incorporating 'Cool-Japan' elements. http://www.tocomarimo.com/ |
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