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Chiyoko Tanaka is a weaver who sees her work as part of a continuum reflecting the tradition of the woven silk textiles of Kyoto. The process of weaving is central to her work, the act of weaving being an accumulation of weft threads, representing time passing. Once woven, the cloth is laid on the ground and Tanaka commences to rub the fabric over and over with particular tools as in ‘Blue Threads & Sienna’ where brick from Sienna was used. In ‘Blue Threads & Grey’ white stone was used. This is a process she describes as ‘Grinding’. An additional colouring effect is achieved by the application of certain soils as with the Jurakadai soil in ‘Ochre No. 300’, charcoal as in ‘Permeated Black 1 & 2’.
Studied
- Kyoto City University of Arts 1963
- Kyoto City University of Arts Post Grad. 1965
Current Teaching Status
- Lecturer, Kyoto City University of Arts
Awards
- 1988 6th International Triennale of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland Bronze Prize
Recent Exhibitions Include
Solo
- 1995 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
- 1998 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
Group
- 1995 Sheila Hicks joined by Seven Friends and Colleagues from Japan The Brown/Grotta Gallery, CT USA
- 1996 Textile Magicians in Japan, Passage de Retz, Paris France
- Mini-Drawing Exhibition - Beginning & Ending, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
- Textile Wizard from Japan, The Israel Museum, Israel
- 1997 The 10th Wave: A Celebration, The Brown/Grotta Gallery CT. USA
- 1998 Imaginations '98' Gastuiskapel, Poperinge, Belgium
- Folding' Japanese Miniatures Canberra Museum Australia
- Structure & Surface - Contemporary Japanese Textile, Museum of Modern Art New York & touring.
- 1999 70 Designers in Tribute to Issika Gaon, the Israel Museum, Israel
- 2000 120th Aniversary of Founding of Kyoto City University Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Public Collections
- Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany
- The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
- The Pulitzer Collection, St. Louis, USA
- Passage de Retz, Paris, France
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Commission Include
- Mountain Villa of Fujita Industry Co. Ltd., Nasu, Japan
- Senri Chuoh Building Taisho Fire & Marine Insurance, Osaka, Japan
- Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
- Stage & costume design for 1400th Anniversary of Shitennoji Temple, Osaka, Japan
Category of Work
- Wall hung and flat floor woven textiles
Materials
- Linen, ramie, sand
