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EXHIBITION DETAILS

Organising Institution
Artists initative

EXHIBITION CURATORS
Anne Farren, Sandra Black and Tousui Tanaka

ARTIST
Anne Farren, Sandra Black and Tousui Tanaka

Category
A, B & C (selected)

Medium
Textiles, ceramic and sumi-e

Installation
12 Installations, approximately 35 running metres and 100 square metres

Cost Share
TBA

Documentation
5 Catalogues gratis, Media kit with press release and two press photographs

Education
20 Education Packages (includes teachers' notes, catalogue and activity sheet)
Student Activity Sheets, Didactic panels
Lectures and floor talks upon request

Crates
Up to 5 crates totalling approximately
2.5 cubic metres

Tour Duration
March 2003 - December 2004
Available WA and interstate

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS EVENTS
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This exhibition represents a major project in the development of cross-cultural and cross-artform works by three internationally recognised contemporary women artists. For the past two years Western Australian artists Sandra Black (ceramics) and Anne Farren (textiles) have been working with Japanese Nanga artist Tousui Tanaka to develop a series of exciting installation works which explore the merging of traditional Japanese art forms with contemporary Western ideas and forms.
'Sanyoso: Three Elements' illustrates the potential for collaboration across artforms and between artists working from contrasting cultures and traditions with the arts. For more than 15 years, the three artists involved in this exhibition have developed a professional relationship and have actively demonstrated their commitment to cultural exchange and the promotion of their artforms internationally through exhibitions, exchange and promotional activity. This project takes the level of exchange between these three artists into direct collaboration and the exploration of cross-cultural exchange.
The exhibition will have broad audience appeal as it presents cross-cultural and cross-artform collaboration and will also present a re-examination of traditional craft practices within the context of contemporary art practice.
'Sanyoso: Three Elements' will open at the Australian Embassy Japan in October 2002 and begins an Australian tour at Craftwest Gallery in March 2003.