Colin Wiggins (National Gallery London, Special Projects Curator) - Head Judge of EWAA 2015

EWAAC(East-West Art Award Competition) celebrates its sixth year of running. Year after year we expand, presenting the opportunity to exhibit excellent works from many East and West artists.

Through its selection process, we as judges find it an immense pleasure to discover many hidden talents.


Colin Wiggins

Colin Wiggins is both art historian and artist. He began his career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum before moving to work in the Education Department of the National Gallery, London, where he spent the last three years as Head of Education.

He has played a key role in the involvement of living artists in the life of the Gallery and has curated exhibitions there of artists such as Peter Blake, Paula Rego, Anthony Caro, Ed and Nancy Kienholz and, most recently, Bridget Riley. A practising printmaker, he attempts in his work to bridge the gap between the artistic traditions of Europe and Japan.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Prof. Emeritus Dan Fern (Royal College of Art. Award-winning graphic and multimedia artist)

Professor Dan Fern is an award-winning graphic and multimedia artist as well as being an influential teacher.

Trained at Manchester College of Art and the Royal College of Art, Fern has worked extensively across all areas of visual communication, including a set of postage stamps for the Royal Mail, posters for the London Underground, book-jackets, magazine covers, record sleeves etc; his graphic work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona , Tate Liverpool and the Smithsonian Institute in New York, as well as being in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

As a video artist working collaboratively with musicians, his work has been performed in front of audiences at the Bath International Music Festival, London’s South Bank Centre and the Hamburg Philharmonie.

In September 2010 he was commissioned by the Royal Opera House to produce large-scale multimedia installations for the Deloitte Ignite Festival, curated by the musician Joanna MacGregor. He has regularly exhibited non-commissioned work in galleries in the UK and overseas, most recently in solo shows in London and Munich.

Dan Fern was made a Professor Emeritus of the Royal College of Art in July 2010, following his retirement as Head of the School of Communications there. He continues his connection with the RCA as a supervisor of research students.

With a long-standing interest in mountaineering, Dan Fern’s work as an artist and film-maker for the past 10 years has been focused on the landscape of the Vercors region of south-east France, where he has a studio.

'This is a fascinating and valuable competition, which invariably surprises me with its range of exciting and sometimes innovative work. It links the UK with a country I'm very fond of; I've often visited Japan, and its traditional art and architecture have been an inspiration to me for many years. What I would particularly like to see in the competition entries in 2014 is more work which expresses a point of view, which can show us new things about the world we live in; work which is individual, thoughtful and possibly even provocative.'

http://www.dan-fern.com
http://www.rca.ac.uk

Shai Ohayon (independent curator and director of exhibition space 'The Container' Tokyo)

Shai Ohayon is an independent curator with international repertoire, and the director of the exhibition space ‘The Container’ in Tokyo.

His curatorialship focuses on contemporary western and Japanese art that defy conventional practices and seek to democratise art. He is the producer of a series of themed art happenings, ArtGigTokyo, which present internationally renowned artists side-by-side with emerging artists in public venues.

Both his ArtGigTokyo events and his gallery, The Container, earned him national (Japan) and international exposure, with reviews in ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Glass Magazine, Dazed & Confused, ArtINFO, Art-iT, Bijutsu-Techo/BT, The Japan Times, and Asahi Shimbun, to mention only a few. His next ArtGigTokyo event will take place in October 2013 in Shinjuku station in Tokyo, the world’s largest train station.

http://the-container.com
http://www.ewaac.com/index_shai.html

Sandra Higgins(Art advisor/curator in the UK and international)

Sandra Higgins is an Independent Art Advisor and Curator with more than 20 years of experience in the art world of London. She has a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art History. She was a practicing artist/printmaker and tutor in the US. When she came to the UK in the early 90s she opened her own gallery, ‘Sandra Higgins Fine Art’, in Mayfair. Currently she acts as an advisor/curator for many individual clients, corporations and institutions. She is a guide for the Tate Gallery and a long-standing member of the Chelsea Arts Club where she organises educational talks by outstanding individuals in the arts for the club members each year.

Sandra represents international artists as their agent and has curated exhibitions for clients at Imperial Wharf, Old Broad Street Headquarters of Landmark Plc. In addition she has curated exhibitions at Blacks Club Soho, and Mark Powell’s Photographic Gallery in Soho, London. Sandra exhibits artists annually at international art fairs and organises ‘pop-up’ exhibitions regularly and has recently begun a series of Private Receptions to meet selected artists in her Gallery Petit at home.

Sandra's newest venture is Discover Art Now, an online portal for discovering and collecting original art created by a selection of artists working in a range of different media.


www.sandrahiggins.com
www.discoverartnow.co.uk

Carl Randall (Award winning portrait artist, British)

Most recently, he won the 2012 BP Travel Award, awarded by The National Portrait Gallery, London. The commission was to paint the people and places along The Tokaido Road as exists today - a route connecting Tokyo and Kyoto, famously portrayed in the prints of Japanese woodblock artist Ando Hiroshige. This resulted in 'In the footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan', a display of 16 paintings at The National Portrait Gallery in London, presently exhibiting at the Aberdeen Art Gallery (2 November 2013 – 1 February 2014), and then the Wolverhampton Art Gallery (3 March – 14 June 2014). Paintings will then travel to The Ando Hiroshige Tokaido Museum, where they will be exhibited alognside Hiroshige's original woodblock prints at The Ando Hiroshige Tokaido Museum, Shizouka, Japan (June 25 - September 15, 2014).

Carl is a graduate of The Slade of Fine Art (BA, Painting), The Princes Drawing School (Drawing Year), and Tokyo University of Fine Arts (MFA & PhD in Fine Art). He has won several prizes, including 2nd prize twice in The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (previous winners include such acclaimed British artists as Stanley Spencer, Augustus John and Paula Rego); a Duveen Travel Scholarship to Italy; the £1500 1st prize in the 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (a national UK watercolour competition); and The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo, Japan.

In 2003 Carl was awarded a prestigious Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation scholarship to continue his painting career in Tokyo, during which time he was selected to be artist in residence in Hiroshima city (to document portraits of survivors of the Atomic Bomb) and was chosen to represent Japan as artist in residence at the 2007 Formula 1 Races. He also completed a Masters and PhD in Painting at Tokyo University of Fine Arts, resulting in being awarded the top prize at the University, with a painting being bought for the permanent collection of Tokyo Geidai Museum.

He has work in numerous private and museum collections in the UK and Japan, and has exhibited and sold with various galleries internationally - The Royal Academy of Arts, The Jerwood Gallery, The Mall Galleries, The National Portrait Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Tokyo Art Award 2009, Japan; Art Taipei 2012, Taiwan.

Upcoming solo exhibitions include at The Ando Hiroshige Museum, Shizouka Japan (July-Sept), and The Berloni Gallery, central London (Sept - Nov).

http://www.carlrandall.com/
https://www.facebook.com/carlrandallpainter

Tina Tsang(Ceramic Artists, Owner of Undergrowth Design, UK /Singapore)

Tina Tsang graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2005 in illustration and animation.

Her diverse background that includes film, painting, animation, photography, costume design, fashion design and trend forecasting has enabled　her to have a broad understanding of aesthetics and trends within the design　world. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to designing and feels that her　experience in many design disciplines helps enrich the quality and depth of her work. Her work was awarded ‘Best in Ceramic’ in 2009 for the hidden art awards.

She has launched her own brand ‘Undergrowth Design’ for series of tableware that started in 2007 which has been featured in around 350 press articles worldwide and owned by celebrities such as Tracy Emin, Stella McCartney, Vivienne westwood via the Last supper LTD, Russle Brand via libertys, Andy bell of Erasure and many more.

She has had her creative base in London since 2001 but frequently travels back to South East Asia and Singapore to gain inspiration for her work. We work with both catering and retail clients both in UK and internationally. Undergrowth has around 200 stockists worldwide.

http://www.undergrowthdesign.com/shop/

Peter Zhao(Art Director and founder of Purple Roof Art Gallery in Shang Hai, China)

Peter Zhao graduated from The University of Western Ontario,Canada with over ten’s years management experience in global top 500 corporations. Thus he fuses the different mindsets of eastern and western cultures through this experience.

After earlier retirement in 1997, he devoted himself into a round-world art trip with the enthusiasm and passion for art. During his trip, he visited those nations and cities bearing ancient history and culture in Europe, America and Oceania, and experienced local customs and culture, browsed through various treasures of art, and absorbed nutritious of art from this trip. During his years of travels around the world, he built up relationships with many international art organizations and had frequent interactions with a lot of international art masters. Through these actions, he has gathered rich resources of art works and artists. After he returned to China in 2006, he founded Purple Roof Art Gallery and focused on investment and cultivation of domestic contemporary artists with potentials; he also devoted to promoting excellent foreign artists to China.

After founding Purple Roof, Peter Zhao then set up first international standard foundry art factory CFAF（China Fine Art Foundry). Up to now this factory exclusively possesses ‘silicon bronze and color copper processing’ technique.

With a keen eye on public art and sculpture, he curated Shanghai Art Fair theme sculpture in three years’ run and also participated in the curation of Expo 2010 Shanghai Jing’An International Sculpture Project (biennial). He promoted the art works of Purple Roof artists to become public environment sculptures of 2010 Shanghai EXPO and these works permanently exhibit in Shanghai EXPO park river area.

Peter Zhao possesses absolute professional and mature enterprise management experience and capability on one hand, and on the other hand he is gifted with in-depth culture deposit and art work creation capability with distinctive personal style. His creation ‘Bronze Bench and Bird Statue/Bronze Installation Series’ reinterprets history and narrates his unique understanding and brand-new expression of Chinese ancient culture. In 2009 he was elected as the bid winner of ‘Glorious 60 years – the most influential athletes of New China’ trophy design.

Curated Events:
2007 Shanghai Art Fair Theme Sculpture
2008 Shanghai Art Fair Theme Sculpture
2009 Shanghai Art Fair Theme Sculpture
2010 Expo 2010 Shanghai Jing’An International Sculpture Project

http://www.purpleroof.com.cn/

Gail Deayton (Director of Hong Kong Art Tutoring. Writer and interviewer to artists globally)

Gail was born in the UK and studied Fine Art Sculpture at Manchester University. She began her teaching career, later becoming Head of Department in a number of schools. She moved to Hong Kong in 1997, having also lived in Dubai and Indonesia. She set up Hong Kong Art Tutoring, of which she is the director.

Gail writes a weekly blog - Artist of the Week - where she interview artists globally. She spend a lot of time looking for emerging artists that are starting to break into the international circuit or have the potential to. She said she has been lucky enough to interview some incredibly interesting individuals from many different countries with a variety of backgrounds.

She shares the blog with many facets of the art world there in South East Asia. Exposing new and current artists who are actively producing and exhibiting is a stimulating process and has given many of them a boost in an area like SE Asia, where they lack connections.


http://www.hkarttutoring.com/2013/05//

Michael Freeman (Internationally renowned professional photographer and author)

Michael Freeman is an internationally renowned photographer and author, who has produced more than 100 books, including a number of well-respected volumes on the practice of photography. Following an M.A. in Geography from Oxford, and several years in advertising, he began his photographic career in London with the the encouragement of Time-Life, his first client.

Principal photographer for the Smithsonian Magazine for many years, Freeman’s work has been widely published internationally in all major magazines, as well as a large number of illustrated photographic books that include Shaker (Stewart Tabori & Chang), Angkor:The Hidden Glories (Houghton Mifflin), China Contemporary (Thames & Hudson and Rizzoli), and Sudan: Land and People (Thames & Hudson, reviewed by Paul Theroux: “This magnificent book .... gives the country a face - irresistible, photogenic, bewitching and profoundly human.”

For his photographic writing, with two million books sold in many languages, he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc fromn the Musée Française de la Photographie in Bièvres, France. He was consultant for, and appeared in, a BBC Television photography series. He has also judged the Nikon Press Awards and has designed, written and continues to supervise all of the British Open College of the Arts photography courses (which now accumulate to a BA Honours degree, the first photography degree available through distance learning in the UK).

http://www.michaelfreemanphoto.com/

Lin Meiki (Taiwanese professional photographer active in Japan.)

Born in 1969 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture in Japan into Taiwanese parents, Lin started photography at the age of 18.

He made full use of digital cameras to capture the natural landscapes of archipelagos around Japan since 2008. He produced and presented works with subtle atmosphere and a sense of transparency of the natural landscapes.

In 1998, Lin held a photo exhibition 'Mt. Amakazari'(a one of the famous Japanese Mountains peaks across Niigata and Nagano prefectures), which he began gathering materials since 1995. Exhibition held in 2001, 'Water side story' expresses unique landscapes of the Japanese archipelago and its beauty of water and how the nature give off water. 'Moments of Forests' 2004, wondering around forests of the Japanese archipelago, and 'Magnificent Nature, Mt. Daisetsuzan' 2008 capturing the vast view of mountains were both held at the Fuji Photo Salon.

His Works 'Mt Amakazari' and 'Water side Story' were published by Aiikusha, and 'Moments of Forests' published by Shogakukan was awarded a grand prize winner of the Nature Photographic Book of the Year at the 2005 International Federation of Wildlife Photographic Society (IFWP). Among others there are 'Water Legend' (co-author, Heibonsha 2007) and 'Magnificent Nature, Mt. Daisetsuzan' (Shougakukan, 2008) available.

In 2007, Lin held an exhibition 'Global Traveller' at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (later it was exhibit at the Matsumoto City Museum). In 2008, 'New Heights' were held at the Fukushima Museum of Photography. Collections of 'Magnificent Nature, Mt. Daisetsuzan' was stored up in Higashikawa Cultural Gallery in Hokkaido.
At present, Lin walks around many parts of the Japanese archipelago to chase the ecology of beech undergoing a rapid transformation due to global warming.

Lin is a member of Japan Photographers Association, a trustees at Japan Photographic Society of Natural Science, a teacher at Club Tourism, and a lecturer at Hasselblad Photo Club,Yokohama.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/rin-meiki/

Mineko Orisaku (Professor, Osaka University of Arts/Photography. Professional Photographer)

Trained under Shoji Otake, a prominent figure in Japanese photography, Mineko Orisaku has successively won prizes in the photographic division of the National Nika Exhibition in 1985 and 1986.

She became independent in 1987. She has been capturing some beautiful landscapes and moments of human figures from all parts of the world, with her tender female point of view.
She holds photo exhibitions in Japan and abroad as well as appearing on TV and giving lectures extensively.

Currently she is a .professor, Osaka University of Arts / Faculty of Arts/Photography Department.

She has unique background that she was chosen to represent Japan in Miss Universe 1981, held in new York.

http://www.orisaku.com/

David Stetson (Award winning British fashion, portrait and commercial photographer)

London-born photographer David Stetson launched his career as a Fashion Photographer in London during the early 1970's, later moving to New York, where he established his own studio on Manhattan’s Park Avenue South. More recently he has lived and worked in Tokyo, but has now relocated back in England. David's outstanding body of work includes portraits of Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock and the late Princess Diana among many others.

He has shot for leading magazines worldwide including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Harper's Bazaar, in addition to acted as Creative Director on advertising campaigns for luxury brands such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Guerlain, Guy Laroche, Hugo Boss, Yves Saint Laurent.

He has also worked as Director / Cameraman on TV commercials & music promotion videos. His artistic sensibility and impressive portfolio has earned him awards in photography, global magazine & television interviews, and he has lectured at photography institutes. David's art photography work has been exhibited on numerous occasions at leading galleries in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Cologne and two pieces hanging permanently in the Malcolm Forbes Private Art Collection.

http://www.davidstetson.com/

JC Little (The Animated Woman. Canada)

" JC Little is The Animated Woman: mom, animator, award-winning blogger... cartoon speaker and social media minx! Always playful and often poignant, she blogs her life with unique drawings and animation at TheAnimatedWoman.com."

She's a happily married mother of three and a director whose 30+ year career in animation has spanned commercials, feature films, TV series, new media, and mobile apps. JC is a Wacom-featured artist, she delivers illustrated keynotes on leadership, visual storytelling and empathy, and has created and directed a Disney-syndicated, Gemini-nominated kids TV show, My Life Me.

A busy entrepreneur, JC's Montreal based company Little Animation produces earth-friendly animated media for kids. Her latest adventure is launching the PickleWeasel iPad drawing app, designed specially to get people laughing, drawing and sharing. Stylus in hand, she can be found drawing and engaging with her tribe throughout the week on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

http://www.theanimatedwoman.com

http://www.theanimatedwoman.com/p/tv-series.html

Prof. Emeritus Dan Fern (Royal College of Art. Award-winning graphic and multimedia artist)

Professor Dan Fern is an award-winning graphic and multimedia artist as well as being an influential teacher.

Trained at Manchester College of Art and the Royal College of Art, Fern has worked extensively across all areas of visual communication, including a set of postage stamps for the Royal Mail, posters for the London Underground, book-jackets, magazine covers, record sleeves etc; his graphic work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona , Tate Liverpool and the Smithsonian Institute in New York, as well as being in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

As a video artist working collaboratively with musicians, his work has been performed in front of audiences at the Bath International Music Festival, London’s South Bank Centre and the Hamburg Philharmonie.

In September 2010 he was commissioned by the Royal Opera House to produce large-scale multimedia installations for the Deloitte Ignite Festival, curated by the musician Joanna MacGregor. He has regularly exhibited non-commissioned work in galleries in the UK and overseas, most recently in solo shows in London and Munich.

Dan Fern was made a Professor Emeritus of the Royal College of Art in July 2010, following his retirement as Head of the School of Communications there. He continues his connection with the RCA as a supervisor of research students.

With a long-standing interest in mountaineering, Dan Fern’s work as an artist and film-maker for the past 10 years has been focused on the landscape of the Vercors region of south-east France, where he has a studio.

'This is a fascinating and valuable competition, which invariably surprises me with its range of exciting and sometimes innovative work. It links the UK with a country I'm very fond of; I've often visited Japan, and its traditional art and architecture have been an inspiration to me for many years. What I would particularly like to see in the competition entries in 2014 is more work which expresses a point of view, which can show us new things about the world we live in; work which is individual, thoughtful and possibly even provocative.'

http://www.dan-fern.com
http://www.rca.ac.uk

Yonguk, LEE (Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University. Dep. of Imaging Art)

Born in Korea, Imigrated to Japan in 1990. After studying CG designing, he went on to study experimental film and media art at a graduate　level. Since then, he started exploring the possibilities of 'images as art'.

Having sorely understanding the historical experiences of inter media and multi media, Li's wide　range of expressions from his cross-media angle include two dimensional, three dimensional,　installation and event.

Recently he collaborates with a lot of physical expressionists such as contemporary dance and other　dances in general.

Li's academic activities in seeking the current media art is going strongly, holding the International　meeting on art and aesthetics annually (The 2nd International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics was held in 2010 ).

Currently, Professor of Tokyo Polytechnic University, Faculty of Arts Department of Imaging Art. Head of Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, The Study of Cross Media.

http://tpucollegeofart.wordpress.com/

Tsukasa Kishimoto (Award Winning Animator and VJ artist in Japan)

Tsukasa started his music career at the age of 16. He was a singer in a rock band while at university in Ehime, Japan, as well as organising various events. He worked on all the aspects of the projects including directing, set decoration, lighting, flyer designing, VJing and making their own music videos.

After that, he has been involved in a wide range of music and visual projects as an audio visual engineer, such as getting production credit on major label albums and supplying sound effects for computer music composing software 'DTM' (Desktop Music). At ‘DESIGN FESTA NO.17’, international art event held at Tokyo Big Sight, his work was chosen as the top picture of the event recording video and he provided his film and music.

In recent years he has moved his base to Tokyo focusing on more VJ events. While playing as a VJ for parties at many clubs, he creates various kinds of video ads and animation videos with his speciality in VJ techniques. In 2012 he won the Best Category Prize of the Video/Animation Category at EWAA 2012 which was held in London, UK.

Also in 2012 he joined the Projection Mapping project on 'Shaka-do', wooden temple built in Muromachi-era, which is designated as a National Treasure. He is now working hard to give help and advice to young talents in Japan for video and animation creation.

http://www.nanographica.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/japonegraphica

Prof. Marty St.James (Award winning and practicing Performance Video and Multi-media artist)

Forty of his video pieces have been archived by the British Film Institute in the UK including Mr and Mrs (1976) his first video work based on a television game show appearance and Metamorphosis (Headcake 1998). During the 1980’s a number of his video works were broadcast on national television including Timecode (Heartbeat 1988) shown in a number of countries worldwide.

The Video Portraits of the 1990’s are some of his best known works including The Swimmer an 11 monitor installation work in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. These works ranged from miniature single monitor video objects to large multi-monitor installations.

He has represented Britain abroad in a number of exhibitions, performance art events, video screenings and festivals via the British Council and Arts Council, including, Electronically Yours at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo (1998) and Artec Nagoya, Japan (1995). During 2000 his year- long inter-active digital work Picture Yourself showed at the Scottish National Galleries celebrating the millennium with the public able to see themselves projected on the museum walls. In 2000 his Boy / Girl video diptych showed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Painting the Century, 101 Portrait Masterpieces from the 20th century including Picasso, Freud, Bacon, Warhol, Munch etc… Running through St.James’ works there has been a sense of self-portraiture or the portraiture of others. In his recent shows in Moscow, The Journey of St Maurin (2002) and New York Somewhere or Between (2005) there has been a sense of the artist involved in a struggle to locate an inner sense of self and being. And a serious attempt to try and convey this to audience rather than ignore their presence or pander to our obvious emotions. Too much video art has tended to rely on the obvious, cheap tricks and gimmicks; St James has begun a process of real engagement between self, medium and viewer.

On the subject of his drawings St.James describes his paper works as ‘thinking actions’, things that land and are fought onto the paper via thinking.

"Marty St.James believes that art only matters if the artist has something important to say, that his or her work is not simply an item of commercial transaction. His is an Apollonian discourse rather than a Dionysian one. For him art is a way of thinking in the visual rather than the making of a heroic statement or precious object. He is in tune with Bachelard’s notion that the embodiment of knowledge exists in the action of making, rather than in the object of the finished piece. His intention is to investigate “the stringing together of moments in frame type form to explore surface and time.”-by Sue Hubbard Arts Editor The Independent Newspaper, London

http://martystjames.com/

Shai Ohayon (independent curator and director of exhibition space 'The Container' Tokyo)

Shai Ohayon is an independent curator with international repertoire, and the director of the exhibition space ‘The Container’ in Tokyo.

His curatorialship focuses on contemporary western and Japanese art that defy conventional practices and seek to democratise art. He is the producer of a series of themed art happenings, ArtGigTokyo, which present internationally renowned artists such as Yoko Ono, Jim Lambie, Makoto Aida, Elmgreen & Dragset and ZEVS … side-by-side with emerging artists in public venues.

Both his ArtGigTokyo events and his gallery, The Container, earned him national (Japan) and international exposure, with reviews in ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Glass Magazine, Dazed & Confused, ArtINFO, Art-iT, Bijutsu-Techo/BT, The Japan Times, and Asahi Shimbun, to mention only a few. His next ArtGigTokyo event will take place in October 2013 in Shinjuku station in Tokyo, the world’s largest train station.

http://the-container.com
http://www.ewaac.com/index_shai.html

Chiho Aoshima(Japanese contemporary artist (Kaikai Kiki))

Rosie Leventon (Award Winning Installation, Land Art Artist)

Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural Installations Land Art and drawings. She makes interventions into the fabric of a building false such as floating floors and corridors, as well as smaller sculpture and permanent outdoor environmental artworks of earth, stone, water and wood.

Exhibitions include: Serpentine Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery , The National Maritime Museum and Nettie Horn gallery,in London. Internationally , Prague Festival of Contemporary Art, Czech Republic. The Dostoyevsky Museum Russia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, and Der Pfalzgalerie, Germany.

Commissions Include: The Woodland Trust. National Maritime Museum Greenwich Convergence Int. Arts Festival USA and Camden Arts Centre.

She has won several Awards including the Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture. and has sold drawings to the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust in Leeds.

Using her background in archaeology she creates work which re-appraises our historical provenance – Her psychological approach to the archaeology of a space implies that she will often peel back layers of modern day living to reveal things that have been lost or forgotten.

Her outdoor installations are often grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural environment and how we use it. For example they often have a functional regional element providing water for animals or promoting biodiversity and regeneration.

Recently she was commissioned by the Woodland Trust to make a large scale Earthwork for their flagship Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods in Leicestershire.

She featured on BBC1 Countryfile ( 23/2/2014) and in several books , most recently, Thinking is Making Presence & Absence in Contemporary Sculpture.

http://www.rosieleventon.com

Toshihiro Asai (Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito)

Having involved in project management for Art Tower Mito as a museum　 curator during its opening preparation period, Toshihiro Asai was appointed to his current position since 2009.

He has managed numerous number of exhibitions and outreach projects ever since his first project: MITO ANNUAL '92, followed by ‘Private Diary 10 - - Japanese Young Artists’, ‘KAWAGUCHI Tatsuo 1990-1998’, ‘PRIVATE ROOM II -- Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan’, ‘BIT GENERATION 2000 -- TV GAMES’, ‘PROMENADE IN ASIA – CUTE’, ‘The Chronicles of KAIYODO’, ‘Taku Satoh -- DESIGNS IN ORDINARY LIVES’, ‘Tatsuya Matsui -- Flower Robotics’, ‘Tse Su-Mei’ etc.

His research subjects include contemporary art, photography and aesthetics. He also currently teaches part-time at the Iwate University and Kansai Gakuin University.

http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/

http://asai310.at.webry.info/

David Stetson (Award winning British fashion, portrait and commercial photographer)

London-born photographer David Stetson launched his career as a Fashion Photographer in London during the early 1970's, later moving to New York, where he established his own studio on Manhattan’s Park Avenue South. More recently he has lived and worked in Tokyo, but has now relocated back in England. David's outstanding body of work includes portraits of Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock and the late Princess Diana among many others.

He has shot for leading magazines worldwide including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Harper's Bazaar, in addition to acted as Creative Director on advertising campaigns for luxury brands such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Guerlain, Guy Laroche, Hugo Boss, Yves Saint Laurent.

He has also worked as Director / Cameraman on TV commercials & music promotion videos. His artistic sensibility and impressive portfolio has earned him awards in photography, global magazine & television interviews, and he has lectured at photography institutes. David's art photography work has been exhibited on numerous occasions at leading galleries in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Cologne and two pieces hanging permanently in the Malcolm Forbes Private Art Collection.

http://www.davidstetson.com/

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