Miyawaki Ayako Retrospective
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The catalogue for the large scale exhibition held at Tokyo Station Gallery in 2025, celebrating 120th anniversary of the birth of the artist: Miyawaki Ayako Retrospective: I Saw, I Cut, I Applied.
The show extensively presented Miyawaki's unique textile art, depicting everyday objects and food materials rendered through appliqué and collage.
“Before starting to create, look closely. In so doing, you will come to realize how vaguely we tend to see things. You will encounter the unexpected.” - Miyawaki Ayako.
Heibonsha Ltd.
Published in 2025
Language : Japanese / English
Pages: 224
235 × 277 × 28 mm / 1015 g
Binding: hardcover
About the ArtistMiyawaki Ayako (1905–1995) is textile artist who worked in the post-war Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1905, her creative practice started in her 40's entirely by self-taught.
Making use of her collection of waste fabrics, Miyawaki depicted / constructed/ designed still life images with needlework especially appliqué. She called her works "Nuno-e", meaning, drawings by cloths.
Miyawaki exhibited both in Japan and overseas including in the USA and France. Most of her works are held in Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Miyawaki was avid writer and left volumes of diaries accompanied with her cloths-works and pen drawings that spanned over decades.
