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JAPAN: WATER
A new and exciting group exhibition about the importance of pure water in Japanese life and culture! GROUNDWORK Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 19 MARCH - 24 JULY 2021 with LISA KIRTON, NANA SHIOMI, ISAO MIURA, JONATHAN MEULI & HAKAN TOPAL For more details: www.groundworkgallery.com/exhibition/future-test-exhibition/ |
STOP PRESS!
Patrick Curry's wonderful and uplifting book Enchantment, about the experience of wonder in everyday life through art, religion and learning, love, food and drink and most significantly in our relationship with the natural world. And Isao's painting Visiting the bird is on the cover! Click on the image to visit Floris Book's website.
Patrick Curry's wonderful and uplifting book Enchantment, about the experience of wonder in everyday life through art, religion and learning, love, food and drink and most significantly in our relationship with the natural world. And Isao's painting Visiting the bird is on the cover! Click on the image to visit Floris Book's website.
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Festival des Arts de Claviers, near Bargemon, France
New work in oils and wood. A joint exhibition with Nadia Schmidt in the Chapelle Saint-Sylvestre, Place du 8 Mai 1945, 83830 Claviers.
Private view: May 19th 6pm
Hours: May 20 – 26th 3 – 7pm
Thanks to Guy Chapman & Damian Cullen for organising this tremendous exhibition!
23 January 2019, 15:30 – 17:00: Putting on the Paper Coat: linguistic and artistic approaches to translating Basho in the 21st century, a presentation by ISAO MIURA & Chris Beckett as part of the SOAS Global Translation Lecture Series.
Free entry. All welcome. School of Oriental & African Studies, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG, UK
TRAVELS IN A PAPER COAT
A collaborative exhibition with filmmaker Nikolai Azariah & poet Chris Beckett
APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford from Thursday 28 June, 2018 to Sunday 15 July, 2018.
Open 12 - 5pm Thursday to Sunday.
Private View (with performance): 6 - 9 pm Thursday 28 June.
Exhibition supported by the Japan Society.
For pictures of this exhibition and of Isao's performance, please click on the photo.
For Nikolai's wonderful short film, please click here: vimeo.com/315541055
Events:
Conversation with Artists: 6 pm Friday 29 June
Sat 30 June, 12 noon: Uta Makura Walk
Sat 7 July, 12 noon: Creek Walk
Sat 14 July, 12 noon: Uta Makura Walk
Sun 15 July, 3-5pm: Closing Celebration
To reserve a place on the walks please visit Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uta-makura-walk-tickets-46356559718
SKETCHES FROM THE POEM ROAD (AFTER MATSUO BASHO'S THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH)
A second and much expanded collaborative exhibition, with poet Chris Beckett, at the GLASS TANK GALLERY, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY from 20 JUNE/ 15 JULY 2016
Isao and Chris will be available in the Glass Tank every Tuesday from 12noon to 2:00pm to introduce and discuss the exhibition with anyone who is interested.
Calendar of free events:
Tues 21 June, 6-8pm: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
"Artist Talk" with Prof Nathalie Aubert and Isao Miura discussing the exhibition and the influence of Japanese calligraphy in modern art.
Sunday 3 July, 2-5pm: A Walk on the Poem Road
A chance to emulate Basho’s type of literary pilgrimage and write your own haiku and haibun along the way
Wednesday 6 July, 10am: Basho at the Ashmolean
A special visit to the private room in the Ashmolean Museum to view Basho and Narrow Road related articles, led by Isao Miura.
Tuesday 12 July, 6-8pm: Bronze and the Art of Translation
A stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation, with John Nicoll (director Chelsea Foundry), Prof Nathalie Aubert, David Constantine & Sasha Dugdale (former and current editor of Modern poetry in Translation) and Thomas McAuley, chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.
Friday 15 July, 6-8pm: Gala Haibun Evening at the Glass Tank
With readings by Jane Draycott, Robert Seatter and the Poem Road group, introduced by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett.
SKETCHES FROM THE POEM ROAD (AFTER MATSUO BASHO'S THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH)
Collaborative exhibition with poet Chris Beckett at the Poetry Society, Betterton Street, Covent garden, London WC2H 9BX
from 2 March/25 April 2015
FELLOWSHIP AT CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART
Isao has been awarded a 6 month Fellowship in the Foundry at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, starting in October 2014. He will be working on his project to re-interpret Matsuo Basho's poem and prose travelogue, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which was written in 1689 and is a seminal and much-loved masterpiece of Japanese literature, .
CROSSING THE WATER
Isao's painting Crossing the Water is the cover of Chris Beckett's book Ethiopia Boy, published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets on 29th February 2013. To see the book, please visit www.carcanet.co.uk or www.chrisbeckettpoems.com
PALM BEACH ART FAIR 2013
Isao is exhibiting with Christopher Walker Art at ArtPalmBeach in Florida, USA, from 25-28 January 2013.
Details are on the fair's website: www.artpalmbeach.com
PALM BEACH ART FAIR 2012
Isao will be exhibiting with Christopher Walker Art at ArtPalmBeach in Florida, USA, from 19-23 January 2012.
MIZU – KI – ISHI (Water, Wood and Stone) (a JAPAN-UK 150 Event)
Isao Miura, Lisa Kirton, Kyoko Sugai: three exciting Japanese visual artists explore the depth and beauty of natural materials in the unusual context of a timber merchant’s yard in Hammersmith.
Venue : The Gallery at Moss & Co, Dimes Place, 104 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 OQW
Date and Time : 1st to 28th September 2009
Monday to Friday 8-12 a.m. and 1-5 p.m., Saturdays 8-11.30 a.m.
New work in oils and wood. A joint exhibition with Nadia Schmidt in the Chapelle Saint-Sylvestre, Place du 8 Mai 1945, 83830 Claviers.
Private view: May 19th 6pm
Hours: May 20 – 26th 3 – 7pm
Thanks to Guy Chapman & Damian Cullen for organising this tremendous exhibition!
23 January 2019, 15:30 – 17:00: Putting on the Paper Coat: linguistic and artistic approaches to translating Basho in the 21st century, a presentation by ISAO MIURA & Chris Beckett as part of the SOAS Global Translation Lecture Series.
Free entry. All welcome. School of Oriental & African Studies, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG, UK
TRAVELS IN A PAPER COAT
A collaborative exhibition with filmmaker Nikolai Azariah & poet Chris Beckett
APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford from Thursday 28 June, 2018 to Sunday 15 July, 2018.
Open 12 - 5pm Thursday to Sunday.
Private View (with performance): 6 - 9 pm Thursday 28 June.
Exhibition supported by the Japan Society.
For pictures of this exhibition and of Isao's performance, please click on the photo.
For Nikolai's wonderful short film, please click here: vimeo.com/315541055
Events:
Conversation with Artists: 6 pm Friday 29 June
Sat 30 June, 12 noon: Uta Makura Walk
Sat 7 July, 12 noon: Creek Walk
Sat 14 July, 12 noon: Uta Makura Walk
Sun 15 July, 3-5pm: Closing Celebration
To reserve a place on the walks please visit Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uta-makura-walk-tickets-46356559718
SKETCHES FROM THE POEM ROAD (AFTER MATSUO BASHO'S THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH)
A second and much expanded collaborative exhibition, with poet Chris Beckett, at the GLASS TANK GALLERY, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY from 20 JUNE/ 15 JULY 2016
Isao and Chris will be available in the Glass Tank every Tuesday from 12noon to 2:00pm to introduce and discuss the exhibition with anyone who is interested.
Calendar of free events:
Tues 21 June, 6-8pm: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
"Artist Talk" with Prof Nathalie Aubert and Isao Miura discussing the exhibition and the influence of Japanese calligraphy in modern art.
Sunday 3 July, 2-5pm: A Walk on the Poem Road
A chance to emulate Basho’s type of literary pilgrimage and write your own haiku and haibun along the way
Wednesday 6 July, 10am: Basho at the Ashmolean
A special visit to the private room in the Ashmolean Museum to view Basho and Narrow Road related articles, led by Isao Miura.
Tuesday 12 July, 6-8pm: Bronze and the Art of Translation
A stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation, with John Nicoll (director Chelsea Foundry), Prof Nathalie Aubert, David Constantine & Sasha Dugdale (former and current editor of Modern poetry in Translation) and Thomas McAuley, chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.
Friday 15 July, 6-8pm: Gala Haibun Evening at the Glass Tank
With readings by Jane Draycott, Robert Seatter and the Poem Road group, introduced by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett.
SKETCHES FROM THE POEM ROAD (AFTER MATSUO BASHO'S THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH)
Collaborative exhibition with poet Chris Beckett at the Poetry Society, Betterton Street, Covent garden, London WC2H 9BX
from 2 March/25 April 2015
FELLOWSHIP AT CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART
Isao has been awarded a 6 month Fellowship in the Foundry at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, starting in October 2014. He will be working on his project to re-interpret Matsuo Basho's poem and prose travelogue, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which was written in 1689 and is a seminal and much-loved masterpiece of Japanese literature, .
CROSSING THE WATER
Isao's painting Crossing the Water is the cover of Chris Beckett's book Ethiopia Boy, published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets on 29th February 2013. To see the book, please visit www.carcanet.co.uk or www.chrisbeckettpoems.com
PALM BEACH ART FAIR 2013
Isao is exhibiting with Christopher Walker Art at ArtPalmBeach in Florida, USA, from 25-28 January 2013.
Details are on the fair's website: www.artpalmbeach.com
PALM BEACH ART FAIR 2012
Isao will be exhibiting with Christopher Walker Art at ArtPalmBeach in Florida, USA, from 19-23 January 2012.
MIZU – KI – ISHI (Water, Wood and Stone) (a JAPAN-UK 150 Event)
Isao Miura, Lisa Kirton, Kyoko Sugai: three exciting Japanese visual artists explore the depth and beauty of natural materials in the unusual context of a timber merchant’s yard in Hammersmith.
Venue : The Gallery at Moss & Co, Dimes Place, 104 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 OQW
Date and Time : 1st to 28th September 2009
Monday to Friday 8-12 a.m. and 1-5 p.m., Saturdays 8-11.30 a.m.
