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Yvonne WAKABAYASHI
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Yvonne Wakabayashi
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EXHIBITIONS :
Permanent
Cambridge Gallery, in Cambridge, Ontario
Vancouver Airport, Departure area
April 8th, 2009
Montreal Centre of Contemporary Textiles, 'Textile Art of Canada' - Montreal, Quebec
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BIOGRAPHY :
Yvonne Wakabayashi lives in Canada. Today, she is one of the leading textile of fibre artist of British Columbia.
Her work is acclaimed globally, reflecting her Japanese heritage but also the modern world that surrounds her. |
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| "My Japanese heritage has led me to explore traditional Japanese processes such as Shibori ,(tying and binding) in combination with my research of precious fabrics made in Gunma prefecture with qualities which retain the memory when wrapped and assembled into sculptural pieces. My work is a combination of the East and West in aesthetics and ideas. My image bank is filled with ideas collected by the water’s edge where I have spent much of my life." |
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To listen to Yvonne Wakabayashi's interview by www.cbc.ca (Visual Art), click here >>
The textile
Yvonne Wakabayashi works on the textile with different ways using the traditional Arashi shibori technique, a japanese fabric manipulation technique that she has developed. She credits Hiroyuki Shindo and Yoshiko Wada who have inspired her to connect with her Japanese heritage.
Her fabrics and art creations, always approached in a sculptural way, show us how important the moulding and shaping represent an important part of her work. By using more common or traditional precious fabrics, Yvonne remains close to her heritage.
She handles, minutely and with dexterity, the silk and the hemp. The silk produced in a small family mill in the Gunma prefecture in Japan, responds especially well to sculptured forms. Her very personal style appealed to the imagination and give a new meaning to the Shibori art.
The art and the teaching of art
Currently, Yvonne still enjoys lecturing to students of Capilano University, University of the Fraser Valley and Kwantlen University, a process that continues to enrich her artistic vocabulary.
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The themes
The theme of the sea, the water, the aquatic world with its creatures and natural elements (waves, tsunami) is omnipresent in her art and guide her artistic route. Her three dimensional sculptures represent and are inspired by lotus, anemones, corals and other sea plants.
The recognition
For her work, she travels ceaselessly between Canada and Japan and works in both countries with energy. Exhibited permanently at the Vancouver airport, Yvonne received the 2nd prize of the 'Onni, Wearable Art Awards’ in 2006 and the ‘Best in Show and First Prize in Silk, Wearable Art Awards’ in 2005 in Port Moody, as well as the ‘Saidye Bronfman Nominee "National Award" and the ’Honourable Mention at the "Cheongju International Craft Biennale’ in Korea the same year.
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The final words
"Beauty, delicacy, sweetness, elegance, virtuosity, poetry, luminosity, transparency, spontaneity, lightness are so many words to describe the work of Yvonne Wakabayashi and her vision of the aquatic world. I can only admire her technical mastery and am moved by her imagination. " Cendrine Galipot
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