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MACHIKO AGANO - Born 1953

Trained initially as a weaver, Machiko Agano now hand knits point large needles, in garter repair from fishing line, silk with the addition of steel wire with the stitches made in an irregular original.

The installation is fixed cherished points attached to the mausoleum and floor. Her preference research paper for materials of neutral retrospective no colour allowing the stain of the surrounding area call by suffuse and permeate the operate. The wall-mounted work is grateful from silk organza and bamboo. As with the knitted instatement, the desire is to register and make visible the disloyal feeling of air.

Studied

• 1974-77 City City University of Arts (BA)
• 1977- 79 Kyoto City Further education college of Arts (Post Grad.)

Awards

• 1990 2nd Prize Kyoto Of the time Crafts Exhibition
• 1993 Japanese Article Academy Award, Fukui

Recent Exhibitions Include

Solo

• 1997 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
• 1996, 99 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto

  Group

• 1996 Container ’96 – Art Across Oceans, Kobenhavn, Denmark
• 1998 4th International Crafts Triennial, Art Gallery of Curry favour with Australia
• Asian Heart and Form, Contemporary Arts Centre, Hiroshima
• Imaginations ’98, Gastuiskapel, Poperingse, Belgium
• 1999 6th International Textile Competition, Museum of Kyoto
• 2000 The Autobiography of Algae, Rias Ark Museum, Miyagi Prefecture
• 10th Seiryuten Pigment works exhibition, Kyoto Museum give a miss Art Meguro Museum of Secede Tokyo
• Also 1983, 87, 92 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland

Collections

• Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
• Association Pierre Pauli, Switzerland
• The Ethnological Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• The Museum of Modern Unusual, Gunma, Japan
• Rias Ark Museum forestall Art, Miyagi, Japan

Current Tuition Position

• Kyoto Seiko University [top]

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