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Shumei Kobayashi textile artist @ COFA

Article released: Tuesday, 23 May, 2006

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Shumei Kobayashi is one of Japan's foremost textiles practitioners and has spent over 30 years perfecting the hand dyeing technique known as Tsutsugaki Yuzen which involves finely detailed, hand drawn designs precisely rendered on silk, cotton or hand woven hemp – the finished pieces are then used as wall hangings, wrapping cloths and wearable pieces.

Shumei Kobayashi has received numerous awards and prizes and has exhibited widely in both Japan and internationally - the Japan Foundation in Sydney has held exhibitions of this work in 1996, 2003 and 2005.

Shumei is committed to maintaining the 400-year-old traditional techniques that he has mastered by integrating them into contemporary culture through his choices of motifs and their architectural uses.

'I am interested in creating a work of art which emotionalizes our present life with the very old dyeing method (tsutsugaki yuzen) of Japan'. Shumei Kobayashi

Shumei Kobayashi will be working in the School of Design’s textile studios (GG09) during his COFA artist residency designing and creating unique textiles
and will present a public lecture for COFA’s Tuesday Night Lecture Program on Tuesday May 30.

Tuesday Night Lecture Program
Admission FREE
6:30pm
Venue: The COFA lecture theatre (EG02)
Located at the Paddington campus
Corner of Oxford St Greens Rd
Paddington
2021
Entry via Greens Road