Wednesday 14 May 2003
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Culture and Creativity: Education and Training in the Arts
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in association with The Japan Society
Artistic exchanges and collaborations between the UK and Japan operate at many levels, and are informed and influenced by cultural preconceptions and notions of creativity. Drawing upon the experience of leading academics and practitioners in the visual and performing arts, this seminar focuses upon culture and creativity and differing approaches to education and training in the arts.
About the contributors
Professor Toshio Watanabe
Professor Toshio Watanabe is Professor of Art and in charge of research at Chelsea College of Art & Design. He has been a Member of Tate Britain Council since 2002 and was recently Chair of the Association of Art Historians. His publications include ‘Turner’s Watercolours and Drawings’, ‘High Victorian Japonisme’, ‘Japan and Britain: An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850-1930’ (edited with Tomoko Sato) and ‘Ruskin in Japan 1890-1940: Nature for art, art for life’ (editor). His current research interests include architectural theory in Japan between 1880s and 1940s; ‘Modern’ perception of nature in Japan and landscape painting; and Japanese taste in Britain.
Lesley Millar
Lesley Millar is The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation/AHRB Research Fellow at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. Lesley Millar has been a practising textile artist with her own studio since 1975 and has work in the permanent collections of both The Crafts Council and Arts Council England, South East, and is listed on the Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers. She has exhibited throughout the UK, in France ,the USA and Japan. She curated the touring ‘Textural Space’ exhibition for Japan 2001, and is now engaged in organising the exchange project ‘through the surface’, and establishing the Anglo-Japanese Textile Research Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
Peter Kyle
Peter Kyle (chair) is General Director of The International Shakespeare Globe Centre. Mr Kyle trained at the Rambert School of Ballet in London and at the Institut fur Buhnentanz in Cologne, and was a soloist dancer, teacher and choreographer with the Northern Ballet Theatre and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Previously, he has been Chief Executive of The Scottish Ballet, Chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Dean of the Arts Educational Schools.