ASAKO ISHIZAKI

Asako Ishizaki trained as a weaver and has developed her own technique and way of working. This is a mixture of plain weave and allowing the weft threads to cross freely without warp threads at various points. The cloth is then oversewn to increase its density, or pleated to give a further dimension. In her piece ‘Drawn From Light’, woven from linen and silver yarn, the horizontal ‘weft’ threads have been tie-dyed giving a variation of colour and texture which add to the visual sensation that the work is floating in the air. ‘Field’ is placed on the ground. The pleats or folds use light and shadow, holding the form.

Studied

• Kyoto University of Education 1969

Current Teaching Status

• Lecturer Kawashima Textile School, IIDA Woman's Junior College

Recent Exhibitions Include

Solo

• 1994 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
• 1998 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto Group
• 1995, 96, 97, 98 Fibre as Art, Tokyo, Kyoto, Gunma, Okayama, Osaka
• 1996 1st Biennale du Lin Haute Normandie, France
• 1997 ITF International Textile Competition, Kyoto
• 1998 2nd Biennale du Lin Haute Normandie, France
• 1999 'Our Most Beautiful Embroidered Stories', France
• International Textile Competition, Kyoto
• Also 1992 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland

Category of work

• Free standing, three dimensional

Materials

• Silk, linen [top]