Nana Shiomi – Girls are Diamonds – Dedicated to All The Runaway Girls

Available as a pair with ‘Home for Runaway Girls -Clubs are the Desire of Knowledge-‘.

This is the final ‘seperated’ print of ‘Diamonds’ available from the edition

 

Exhibition 2024

NANA SHIOMI

The View, I will see it Yesterday

Woodcut prints 2016–2024

RABLEY GALLERY

9 November – 13 December 2024

 

WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR

Rabley Gallery Booth 27

20–24 November

LONDON

NANA SHIOMI

Me and the Universe

Woodcut prints 1996–2024

 

Nana Shiomi: Her Own Interpretation

At Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

3 August until 13 October 2024

 

These works are my homage to Louise Bourgeois’s “Home for Runaway girls” (1994 / Gouache on sandpaper, 22.2×15.9cm).

I have no idea why but I feel like I am a runaway girl since I was young. However, it is not with negative meanings at all. It’s very positive one. I am always seeking my freedom with my full of curiosity and adventurous mind. I am proud of my self as I am still keeping that spirits. These works are my support message to the all runaway girls.

I decided to make Alice of ’Alice in Wonderland’ appear for the cast of characters in these works. Also, I use the upside-down manner of the playing cards for coincidence to the Alice’s story.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nana Shiomi makes contemporary woodcut prints. After a period of examining Western art, Shiomi moved on to consider her own Japanese culture within her prints. Shiomi makes reference to masterpieces from the Japanese ukiyo-e tradition in her own work. She often employs a stage within the composition of her images to present ideas. Her printing approach can be described technically as a combination of relief/intaglio and water-based woodcut printmaking. It is rooted in the traditional methods of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock, printmaking by hand with a Baren, to which she has added her own experimental printing techniques.

Shiomi’s work is held in public collections including her epic cycle of 100 Prints ‘One Hundred Views Of Mitate’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Royal College of Art Collection; Pallant House Gallery. Chichester; Wimbledon School of Art Collection; Brunel University, Middlesex; Oriental Museum, Durham; Aberystwyth University, Wales; The Johnson Museum, Cornell University Collection, USA; Tama Art University, Tokyo.

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1956, Shiomi studied oil painting and printmaking at the Tama Art University (BA, MA), Tokyo, and in 1989 – 1991 MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. She has been living and working in London since 1989.

Rabley Gallery and Nana Shiomi co-published “This Side and the Other Side, Nana Shiomi Woodcuts 1996 – 2016, a monograph on the artist’s prints is available from the gallery.