*Japanese ink

Dates & Times
Friday April 11th – Sunday April 13th, 2025.
10:00 – 18:00 daily.
Demonstrations of East Asian calligraphy from 14:00 daily.
Location

The Corner Gallery
56 Dawes Road, Fulham, London SW6 7EJ
Closest station: Fulham Broadway (District Line)
Online Exhibition
An online version of the exhibition will be available for public viewing from Monday April 14th, 2025.
About
This exhibition is a collaboration between Etsuko “Eco” Yokoyama and Matthew “Mashū” James. These two artists share an interest in ancient Chinese writing and became acquainted through Ushikubo Gojū-sensei: one of the world’s leading exponents of Zhou-dynasty (c. 1046 BC – 256 BC) calligraphy.
Eco is an artist and a coding conductor. She has also run a gemstone store in Tokyo since 1999. She was born in Tokyo and graduated from Otero College in the USA. She began her career as an artist in 1993 and produces works using crayons, oil pastels, and watercolours.
She has held three solo exhibitions in Tokyo.
Eco has been studying shoga (East Asian calligraphy and painting) at Kyoto University of the Arts since 2021, and she began learning kinbun (Zhou-dynasty seal script) from Ushikubo Gojū-sensei in 2022.
As a coding conductor… What is coding? Message elements, vibrations, and sensations emanate from a source. Not in language, but in various forms (symbols, diagrams, pictures, etc.). By grasping with the senses and feelings—rather than with words—one can bring about great changes.
Eco is a specialist at “downloading” such codes.
Mashū is a calligrapher. He was born in England, and first went to Japan and began studying calligraphy in 2000. His work has received numerous prizes at national exhibitions in Japan and has been exhibited at venues including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Art Center in Tokyo, and the Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.
He is a trustee of the Kenshin Calligraphy Association, a consultant to the Yomiuri Calligraphy Association, and the co-founder of yo-setsu.com: an online English-language resource about East Asian calligraphy. He is currently researching the recent history of Japanese calligraphy as a PhD student at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Eco and Mashū have exhibited their work together as part of the 50th edition of Ushikubo Gojū-sensei’s Seiwa Exhibition, which was held at the Kōbun Gallery in Tokyo in November 2023.
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