Coming soon: A Japanese Season at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales, 1 April – 24 June 2012

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be  supporting the Ruthin Craft Centre’s Japanese Style: Sustaining Design,  a season of  exhibitions rooted in sustainable design, due to run from 1 April to 24 June 2012.

The Ruthin Craft Centre, the Centre for the Applied Arts was originally established in 1982. Rebuilt and re-opened in 2008, it boasts three galleries and six artist studios.  For the duration of the Japanese season the galleries and studios will celebrate a different form of Japanese art and craft including applied art, architecture, ceramics from Tohoku, sustainable craft, textiles and design. Participants include Reiko Sudo, Artistic Director of Nuno textiles; Studio Archi Farm, which design solar-powered buildings and combine their innovative architectural practice with farming;  Kagure, a Japanese ethical design initiative; and the architects  Kazuya Morita and Tono Mirai and, from the Osamu Ishiyama Laboratory, Waseda University Taishi Watanabe, Kengo Sato and Shinya Saotome.

The season will also include a variety of talks, workshops, a craft club and events including a dance performance by Sioned Huws and Reina Kimura.