exhibitions
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Award for Shodō Calligraphy at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
I am surprised and delighted that my calligraphy artwork has been awarded a Special Selection prize (Tokusen 特選) at the 73rd Shokaisha Exhibition 第73回 書海社展 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, situated inside Ueno Park. The exhibition runs from the 28th January to 2nd February. This annual exhibition of shodо̄ calligraphy features several large rooms
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Exhibition at Dundee Botanic Gardens
TRACES OF SHODŌMargaret Kerr and Blair Shōgen Thomson Green Gallery: University of Dundee Botanic GardenRiverside Drive, Dundee DD2 1QH30th Oct – 19th Nov 2024 This exhibition shows a series of spontaneous abstract drawings inspired by the flowing and dynamic forms of traditional Japanese Shodō calligraphy, made by Margaret Kerr over the past three years. Alongside
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Season’s Greetings ❄☃
Hope you are keeping cosy and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday Here is my Season’s Greetings card, an an abstracted view (actually a few viewpoints brought together in one piece) made in the Dundee University Botanical Gardens using pens, ink and pencil on calligraphy board. This artwork, as well
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Renga: place and time entwined
Exhibition organised by Margaret Kerr 5th – 25th November 2023Green Gallery, Dundee University Botanical Gardens About this exhibition This exhibition features work by eight artists who spent an August weekend making art in the Botanics this year. Our work was inspired by the Japanese concept of Renga. Renga is a form of poetry composed by
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Exhibition in Japan
Blair participated in the ART/X/TOYAMA international exhibition in Japan in May 2022. ART/X/TOYAMA is a contemporary public exhibition showing artworks from Japanese and international invited artists, and has been held every four years. Blair exhibited a series of twelve photographs as well as two abstract paintings. ART/X/TOYAMA website
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Through Discord and Harmony – Glasgow School of Art Fine Art and MFA Degree Shows – Part 2
(article continued from previous post) A vaguely familiar and catchy game type tune pulled me into an installation piece, ‘THE PURGE’, a joint work by three artists Chitra Sangtani, Lewis Prosser and Martha Simms. The tune and glittering colours welcome me to enter into the game world of The Purge, with an unsettling laughing audience
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Through Discord and Harmony – Glasgow School of Art Fine Art and MFA Degree Shows – Part 1
Methodically I began the GSA Degree Show journey. Working my way through the gleaming open spaces of the Steven Holl designed Reid Building, an interior shimmering in neutrality and sinuos equilibrium, taking in the impressive efforts of the students in the various design disciplines. Spotless presentation in a perfect exhibition environment, no place for
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Exhibition Review – ‘JANUS’ – Stephanie Burt and Kirsty Palmer
Upper image: Janus (satellite) as imaged by Cassini, NASA, 2008. Lower image: ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, 1975, Peter Weir. Screen shot. A refreshing breeze moved through the Saltmarket in Glasgow in January, with a series of temporal, light and strangely magnetic works shown by artists Stephanie Burt and Kirsty Palmer. Being exhibited at 87 Saltmarket
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GSA Master of Fine Art 2014 Degree Show Highlights
This year’s MFA from Glasgow School of Art was a very strong showing of many mature and confident works that, after several years of mixed MFA degree shows, really lived up to the challenge of the space. The Glue Factory presents artists with the opposite of a white cube space, it is an old converted