Emptiness is Fullness
2019
SSCS
Super Spiritual Creatures in Swindon
2018
Ukemochino-Kami
保食神 ウケモチノカミ -Artist Book-
2018
Portraits
portraits and commissioned works
About
Mai Abe
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Artist
Mai Abe’s deep connection to historic and contemporary Japanese Artistic practice began over 2 decades ago when she studied painting and drawing in Tochigi, Japan. As a painter in Japan, Mai’s portraits explored the human condition and her artistic process was shaped by the subjects she was commissioned to paint. By moving to the UK and uprooting her practice, Mai has been exploring new terrain that digs beneath the topsoil and explores hidden complexities.
Whether exploring the hidden geological structures that shape the physical world around us, or by exploring and questioning the immutability of cultural symbols, Mai’s work explores hybridity. Mai’s work provokes the viewer to consider hybridity between human cultures, to consider the interconnectedness of humans within an ecosystem and ultimately to reconsider the effect of human culture on the natural world.
A practicing artist with over 5 years professional experience of selling artwork, devising and running workshops and completing an Oxford Brookes foundation Degree in Art and Design Practice.
日本で２００２年より油彩、テンペラ画などを学び、家族や神話を題材にした肖像画を製作。２０１５年より渡英、四年間の滞在を通して、和紙や墨などの日本の伝統的な材料やイギリスの土などを用いて版画、ドローイングなどを使ったインスタレーションを製作。日本と西洋の文化的シンボルの不変性を疑問視し、東西文化の混在性、生態系内の人間の相互関係性、自然界における人間文化の影響を再考している。
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上智大学経済学部卒、Oxford Brookes University Foundation Degree in Art and Design Practice 終了
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