Issey Miyaki Exhibition

Always looking for new forms and inspiration of design I visit galleries, gardens and anywhere there is interesting forms. Today I was fortunate to see the Issey Miyaki exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Rippongi, Tokyo

Inside the National Art Gallery, beautiful curved lines

Issey Miyaki is one of my ‘heroes’ of design along with Andy Goldsworthy (for his empathy with nature and art), Dale Chihuly (movement and colour in glass forms) and Kaffe Fassett (colour and texture in fibre art). I draw my inspiration from these artists and their love in the pursuit of continuing to strive for new heights in their work.

Some of the quotes in the exhibition:- ‘Issey Miyaki looks ahead and refuses to be bound by convention’ ‘Issey Miyaki’s love of research for new materials and the respect to Japanese Handicraft’ ‘Everyday, imagine something new to create, something that has never existed and build a new reality’.

Hanging form the ceiling – an example of pleating and vibrant colours used in Issey Miyake’s designs

My philosophy towards my ikebana is very similar to these thoughts and it is very exciting to think so many art disciplines over lap where we can build our knowledge and inspiration in the quest to discover more on the journey of ikebana

Visit this link to get a snap hot of what I saw. http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/03/20/tracing-the-revolutionary-work-of-issey-miyake/