09/09/2024ARCHIVED Creating the Mingei Film Archive Project: Craft, History and Preservation
The Mingei Film Archive is an ongoing project to locate, restore and preserve films on the history of craftsmanship in Japan and beyond. For this lecture, filmmaker and potter Marty Gross will share with us how the Mingei Film Archive was created and developed showing films by Bernard Leach and other craftpeople in Japan.
15/07/2024ARCHIVED Karuwaza, a Risky Business: Japanese Acrobats in Victorian Britain
In this lecture, Pernille Rudlin will discuss the life and experiences of the first Japanese acrobats who arrived and settle in Britain in the late 1860s.
09/05/2024ARCHIVED OKASHI – Special Private View with Michael Hoppen
The exhibition illustrates an eclectic understanding of Japan’s visual identity by including photographs, vintage textiles, rich colourful avantgarde theatre posters, woodblock shunga prints and unusual objects, such as Netsuke and Harigata, contextualising the gallery’s interest in Japanese culture.