‘A Room on the Other Shore – Moon’ is a Japanese Woodcut of waves, the moon, and Japanese screen is a rarely available early print from 2003. This is an AP, printed and signed by the artist(Artists’ Proof) aside from the edition of 30
EXHIBITION
NANA SHIOMI
The View, I will see it Yesterday
Woodcut prints 2016–2024
RABLEY GALLERY
9 November – 13 December 2024
WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR
20–24 November, LONDON
Rabley Gallery Booth 28
NANA SHIOMI
Me and the Universe
Woodcut prints 1996–2024
Recent News
Nana Shiomi – Her Own Interpretation, Pallant House Gallery 8 Aug –13 Oct 2024
Recent News
Nana Shiomi – Her Own Interpretation, Pallant House Gallery 8 Aug –13 Oct 2024
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.