COFA Talks - Art and Design in Textile and Clothing - Case Studies from Japan
Walks, Talks & Short Courses
September 14, 6pm
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In the lecture, Art and Design in Textile and Clothing, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada will explore the complex strands and diverse approaches being taken by contemporary Japanese designers. With a focus on textiles and clothing, the selected case studies will highlight their extraordinary and innovative designs which seamlessly merge the boundaries between art and design, traditions and technology, and makers and market.
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is an artist, author, curator, textile researcher and has long been an exponent of traditional and sustainable practices in fashion and textile production. She holds a BFA in Textile Art from Kyoto City Fine Arts University, MFA in Painting from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has studied traditional Japanese silk embroidery, ikat weaving and indigo dyeing. Wada received the Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1979 and in 1996. Her research yielded the definitive publication, Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing (14th printing, 2008), and led to her second shibori publication, Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now (5th printing, 2008). Grants include: the Indo-US Sub commission for Education and Culture, the Matsushita International Foundation and the Renwick Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Wada is also a curator, lecturer and freelance consultant.
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College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
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