2018 Shapes of Water

After the successful interactive installation work: Making Waves - the official event of ‘Hokusai, Beyond the Great Wave’ in the Great Court of the British Museum last year, Imada decided to produce a continuity of images - 'Shapes of Water' in  different formats. Inspired by Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’, Imada presents her own approach to ‘Shapes of Water’. Her unique abstract style is very bold and dynamic yet evocative and delicate, seeking to stimulate and broaden the viewer's imagination.

For this exhibition, she has focused on creating print works and drawings using different techniques such as Woodcut, Lithography, Screen Printing, Mokulitho (Plywood lithography), Ink drawing, Watercolour, etc. She often uses Japanese traditional techniques with a contemporary twist and some works are created using traditional Japanese techniques: a hanging scroll and folded screen format.

Imada also has a specific taste and interest in music and here is working again with a young British composer & flutist Nicholas Sabisky specifically for this exhibition collaborating and interacting in forming her works. She hopes that the music and art work together will open up the imagination to deeper levels of understanding.