NEWS: ***Exhibition extended to 31 August 2016***

Workshop: 5 August, more details on News page

 

【リンダデニス展】

Linda Dennis Exhibition   On Touch: Gather 

SEA – FOLK MUSEUM, Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan

23 April (Sat) – Sun 25 June (Sat) 2016　***Exhibition Extended to 31 August 2016***

4月23日（土）－6月25日（土)  　***期間延長:　8月31日まで***

海の博物館

三重県鳥羽市浦村町大吉1731-68

http://www.umihaku.com/index2.html

More exhibition details on NEWS page.

 

On Touch: Gather at Sea-Folk Museum – Pamphlet (PDF format)

Exhibition Description from Sea-Folk Museum website:

Australian artist, Linda Dennis, presently teaching at Tokyo University of the Arts and Joshibi University of Art & Design, is making artworks based on the theme of “Touch”. Two years ago when visiting Kii-Nagashima in Kihoku-cho, Mie Prefecture, after encountering fishing nets and experiencing hand sewing them, she imagined the bonds between people through the many interwoven threads.

 

From then on, she has been making large works from net, which can be touched. The work for this exhibition was inspired by her visit to Toba in the 1980s when she saw Japanese female divers, and “sukari” (net bags the divers use for their catch) that she saw during her visit to Sea-Folk Museum. The exhibition title “Gather” includes references to this gathering from the ocean by the divers, and the collection of the museum. Her work will be exhibited in the outdoor area between Exhibition Hall A and Hall B.

オーストラリア出身で、現在、東京藝術大学と女子美術大学で教鞭をとりながら、”TOUCH”（タッチ）をテーマに作品作りに取り組んでいるリンダさんは、2年前より三重県の紀北町長島にて、漁網に出会い、手作業で網を編む体験をし、網は多くのより合わせた糸で作られ、そこに人間の絆を感じたといいます。

 

それから漁網を使って、触れることのできる大きな作品作りに取り組んでいます。今回の作品は、８０年代に鳥羽を訪れた際、海女さんに出会ったこと、そして海の博物館に訪れたことがきっかけで海女のスカリ（採ったとったものを入れる網の袋）をイメージし、制作されました。作品タイトルのGather（集める）には、海女さんが獲物えものを集める、博物館は資料を集めるなどの意味も込められています。博物館の展示A棟とB棟の間、屋外にて展示します。