EXHIBITION – NANA SHIOMI The View, I will see it Yesterday Woodcut prints 2016–2024

Image: Nana Shiomi ‘Even Monkeys’ Tea Bowl, 2024, Japanese Woodcut, Block Size: 44.8 x 44.8, Paper size 60 x 59cm, Edition 30

EXHIBITION

NANA SHIOMI

The View, I will see it Yesterday

Woodcut prints 2016–2024

RABLEY GALLERY

9 November – 13 December 2024

Private View, Sat 9 Nov

2 – 4.30pm

Enquiries: T: +44 (0)7967545136 E: [email protected]

Nana Shiomi’s thoughts and ideas are played out within the graphic clarity of her woodcuts, anchoring her subjects on the ochre boards of a stage that recedes in perspective against the red, wood-grained backdrop. This perfect environment makes each woodcut immediately recognisable as a ‘Shiomi’ and is enduringly adaptable to the concepts it envelops.

Nana Shiomi was born in Japan in 1956. Arriving in the UK to study printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1989. She has lived between London and Japan for nearly 35 years.

This exhibition will include rare early prints from the artists archive.

CATALOGUE
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Nana Shiomi Japanese woodblock print of tree and screen, contemporary print

image: Nana Shiomi ‘The View, I will see it Yesterday’ Handprinted woodcut, Printed on 90 gsm Echizen Han-Kusa, Image size: 17 x 36 cm / Paper size: 22 x 40 cm, Edition 40

woodcut by Nana shiomi of wave and japanese screen

image: Nana Shiomi ‘The View, I saw it Tomorrow’ Handprinted woodcut, Printed on 90 gsm Echizen Han-Kusa, Image size: 17 x 36 cm / Paper size: 22 x 40cm, Edition 40

SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION LIMITED EDITION PRINT OFFER

Nana Shiomi and Rabley Gallery present the following two special

edition woodcut prints to celebrate the exhibition The View, I Will

See It Yesterday, Nana Shiomi: Woodcuts 2016 – 2024, at Rabley

Gallery in Wiltshire, UK (9 November – 13 December 2024). Each

multiple plate print is a limited edition of 40 and comes with a

signed copy of the new book.

“Every morning, I open my window. I see my usual view and feel relieved, or I see an unusual view, and my heart is pounding. Sometimes, the view is a surprise, and sometimes it is familiar. It is always a thrill! Today becomes a yesterday tomorrow. Time seems to be going in one direction. However, I think we can come and go in any direction. We are born to collect our own stories.”

book cover - BOOK -The View, I will see it Yesterday, Nana Shiomi, Woodcuts 2016 – 2024

Japanese woodcut print by nana shiomi of tree and screen

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Nana Shiomi – The View, I will see it Yesterday (Book Print 1)

£395.00

2024 Medium: Japanese Woodcut

Handprinted water-based woodcut

Printed on 90 gsm Echizen Han-Kusa

Image size: 17 x 36 cm / Paper size: 22 x 40 cm

Edition 40

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Nana Shiomi new woodcut print of wave and Japanese screen

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Nana Shiomi – ‘The View I saw it Tomorrow’ (Book Print 2)

£395.00

2024 Medium: Japanese Woodcut

Handprinted water-based woodcut

Printed on 90 gsm Echizen Han-Kusa

Image size: 17 x 36 cm / Paper size: 22 x 40 cm

Edition 40

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“What have I spent half my life trying to represent here in London? I am not a prolific printmaker, but in the last thirty-five years, I have produced about two hundred works, including One Hundred Views of Mitate. Looking back at past work, I think of my stubborn formal composition and of placing icons on the stage where the outlandish icons appear.

Each piece has a single story to tell, and I have put on stage the icons I thought best told that story. I wanted to share the small wonders and the truths of this world, what I had discovered in the daily subtleties of my life and my work. With each new work I was so excited about making the piece that I never thought about its relationship to the works before and after. But now, having reviewed all two hundred or so pieces, it is pleasing to discover that they are separate stories, but overlapping and flowing like a single river” Nana Shiomi