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ARCHIVED Art Without Heroes: Mingei – Special Private Tour (2.00pm)

Thursday 15 August 2024 / 2:00pm
Art Without Heroes: Mingei – Special Private Tour (2.00pm)

Date
Thursday 15 August 2024

Time
1.45pm for 2.00pm [Fully-booked]
We are running another tour at 6.30pm - click here to learn more.

Venue
William Morris Gallery
Lloyd Park, Forest Road
Walthamstow
London E17 4PP

Booking Details
Booking essential 
Members of The Japan Society and Circle of Japanese Art London and their guests: £15 per person
Non-members: £25 per person

Bookings open for non-members from Sunday 28 July 2024 (More details on how to become a member here)
Please see Booking Information below for our cancellation policy. 

Please note this session is now fully booked. Please sign up to be added to the waiting list. 

Book online here


The Japan Society and Circle of Japanese Art London are pleased to invite members and friends to a special private tour of Art Without Heroes: Mingei at the William Morris Gallery. The tour is available at 2.00pm and 6.30pm

With more than 80 works including ceramics, woodwork, paper, toys, textiles, photography and film, Art Without Heroes: Mingei is the widest-ranging exhibition dedicated to Mingei in the UK, incorporating unseen pieces from significant private collections from the UK and Japan, along with museum loans. For the first time the exhibition considers Mingei both as a historical moment and as a set of principles that remain relevant to contemporary craft, manufacturing and material consumerism worldwide.

For this special tour, we are delighted to welcome curator Róisín Inglesby to guide us through the exhibition. This is a great opportunity to gain insight about the movement in a wider context. Attendees are welcome to arrive early to preview the exhibition.

Róisín Inglesby is Curator at the William Morris Gallery, where she focuses on Morris’s global connections and the international Arts and Crafts movement. Educated at the University of Oxford and the Bard Graduate Center, New York, Inglesby has held curatorial roles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Historic Royal Palaces, and the Teien Museum in Tokyo, where she assisted in creating greater accessibility for non-Japanese visitors.

Inglesby’s recent exhibitions include Pioneers: William Morris and the Bauhaus (2019); Distant Fellowship: Morris and South Asia (2021); and Young Poland 1890–1918: An Arts and Crafts Movement (2021), which won the Association for Art Historians’ Curatorial Prize

Her current (March-September 2024) exhibition Art Without Heroes: Mingei focuses on the origins, interpretations and contemporary influence of the Japanese folk craft movement and is accompanied by a Yale University Press publication.

Images: Left: Hamada Shōji demonstrating at Scripps College, California, 1953 From the collections of the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts; Right: William Morris Gallery

If you have any questions, please call The Japan Society office on 020 3075 1996 or email events@japansociety.org.uk.


In partnership with Circle of Japanese Art London and William Morris Gallery


Booking Info

  • You should receive an automated email from The Japan Society to let you know that your booking request has been registered. Please note that your booking is not confirmed until we have checked your details - you will receive a further email once your booking is confirmed.

  • We will send you the details to attend the event closer to the date.

  • Cancellation Policy
    Should you wish to cancel after the cancellation deadline (noon Thursday 8 August 2024) we will endeavour to fill your space(s) - however, in the event this is not possible, you will be charged the full amount.