Hiroko is a painter, printmaker, and site-specific installation artist.
She is a member of the Japan Artists Association and the International Association of Art
and regularly teaches at the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts and the British Museum.
News
Artist Interview with Sway Gallery London
8 Jun - 3 Jul 2021: Installation exhibition
Tue 15 & Wed 16 Jun 2021: Japanese woodblock Printmaking workshop
Howes Primary School, Coventry
22 June 2021: Online Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Demonstration
SOAS, London
Fri 2 & Sat 3 Jul 2021: Interactive Installation with pupils in Coventry
to cereblate their new Japanese Peace Garden
Sat 21 & Sun 22 Aug 2021: Uchiwa making & Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop for Adults
Chester Beatty, Dublin
Mon 23 & Tue 24 Aug 2021: Uchiwa making & Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop for Teens
Chester Beatty, Dublin
Fri 22 Oct - Fri 3 Dec 2021, Every Fridays for 7 weeks
Japanese Black & White Woosblock Printmaking course
The Hurlingham Club, London
Fri 30 Oct 2020: Workshop for Teens
Chester Beatty, Dublin
(Postponed to 2021, the new date TBA)
Sat 31 Oct & Sun 1 Nov 2020: Workshop for Adults
Chester Beatty, Dublin
(Postponed to 2021, the new date TBA)
Fri 29 Oct - Sat 27 Nov 2021: Solo Exhibition at Sway Gallery London, London
Spring 2022 from 1 - 2PM: Lunchtime Lecture
THe Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
(Postponed to 2022, the new date TBA.)
Thu 5 Nov - Thu 3 Dec 2020: Solo Exhibition
Ginza Onodera Mayfair, London
(Postponed)
To find out the details of exhibitions, workshops and events,
please go to News or http://www.facebook.com/hirokoimada.uk
Creative Video Campaign shot for Vertu’s Aster Yosegi Wood filmed by the Kalory Agency
HIROKO IMADA Creating a work of art
Vertu commissioned Japanese artist, Hiroko Imada, to develop the campaign visual concept for Aster Yosegi Wood. Born in Tokyo, Hiroko studied at the Tokyo Zokei University and later at the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London). She has a unique talent in blending traditional Japanese artistic methods with modern technology to create something completely unique. These skills along with her experience in Japanese woodblock Printmaking, and Paper installation using her own Japanese handmade paper, make her the perfect artist to collaborate with as we launch the Aster Yosegi Wood.
Vertu invited Hiroko to develop the campaign visual concept for Aster Yosegi Wood because we wanted to work with a Japanese artist to create a piece of work inspired by the Yosegi wood pattern, which is based on bamboo weaves and fishnets. We chose to collaborate with Hiroko as her wood block printing techniques originated in the Edo Period, the same era as that which the Yosegi craftsmen started working. The resulting piece depicts a beautiful, traditional bamboo grove and was produced using a printing method called 'lithography on plywood', which was invented in Japan.
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