{"id":113205,"date":"2018-08-22T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=113205&lang=en"},"modified":"2018-08-22T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:02:59","slug":"studio-kura-resident-artist-exhibitions-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/studio-kura-resident-artist-exhibitions-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Kura Resident Artist Exhibitions \u2013 August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well-known Itoshima artist-run gallery, studio and residency programme Studio Kura will host an exhibition this coming weekend featuring the work of six international artists currently working at the space. The artists come from the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.<\/p>\n

\u2022 8\/25 (Sat.), 8\/26 (Sun.)
\n\u2022 11:00~18:00
\n\u2022 8\/25: Party and artist talk 17:00~
\n\u2022 Free
\n\u2022 Studio Kura
\n\u2022 586 Nijomasue, Itoshima City, Fukuoka<\/a>
\n\u2022 https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The following outlines the six artists and their work.<\/p>\n

Herman Verhagen, Netherlands: \u201con nature on porcelain\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Animation in cobalt blue on a porcelain landscape
\nA ceramist, Herman Verhagen from Amsterdam creates a visionary nature landscape using porcelain which he bought at Imari City. He then projects a cobalt blue watercolour animation on it, showing an exciting project mapping-like installation combined with stillness and movement of nature, at Kura (rice storage) Gallery.<\/p>\n

Hiroka Yamashita, United States: \u201cthe Swimmer \/ the Sleeper\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Painting
\nHiroka Yamashita (born in 1991, Hyogo in Japan) is a New York-based painter. Yamashita has painted based on the observation of life, folktales, and memories. This time, she presents a collection of oil paintings which are based on the day when she went to Yokosuka to see the works of painter Koji Nakazono, as well as her experiences in Itoshima.<\/p>\n

Lisa Fong, United States: \u201cAbove Water, Below Ground\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Painting, Drawing, Embroidery
\nBorn in Berkeley, California but raised in a Cantonese family, Lisa Fong interweaves connections of living in between her duality. Within the exhibit, she listens to the landscape of language barriers and illustrates this sound by symbolizing it through the rice fields located near Studio Kura. Also, referencing back to photographs of her mother\u2019s rural village, the drawings and paintings focuses on deconstructing then reconstructing a sense of familiarity.<\/p>\n

Chloe Ong, United Kingdom: \u201cA Little Slower, A Little Close\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Painting
\nChloe Ong from Singapore is currently based in London as a master degree art student. Having lived in several busy cities, she found a complete change while staying in the rural area in Itoshima. In response to this new, beautiful surrounding, she shows a new series of works and sketches depicting the much slower and intimate pace of time.<\/p>\n

Fiona Templeton, United States: \u201ca walk in Shiraito\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Installation\/ performance
\nA director of the New York performance group “The Relationship”, Fiona Templeton, who is originally from Scotland, works in performance, installation and writing. Inspired by the nearby Shiraito Falls and the Sazaedo (Entsu Sansodo: double helix temple) in Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture, she uses white thread (shiro ito) to make a labyrinth journey for the audience at the
\nshrine space.<\/p>\n

Carol Swain, Australia: \u201cSeeing Again, Making Again, Breathing Again\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
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\nExhibition style: Drawing
\nCarol Swain is a visual artist based in Castlemaine, a small country town in Australia. As a new place opens up in varying ways of seeing to her, she challenges to present delicate drawings of nature and objects\/landscape here with fading textures, which reflect on the future of some faded residence areas because of depopulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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