Textiles exhibition celebrates Anglo-Japanese relations

14/09/2011
An exhibition of contemporary textiles will mark 15 years of collaboration between the UK and Japan through the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).

UCA’s professor of textile culture, Lesley Millar MBE, is curating Bite-Size, an exhibition of miniature works by textile artists from both countries, at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London from October 31 - December 14, 2011. It will then travel and be shown in Japan.

Professor Millar, who founded UCA Farnham’s Anglo-Japanese Textile Centre in 2001, said: “This is a wonderful and unique opportunity to see works from a remarkable group of artists and designers in one place, and also celebrate what can be achieved when peer groups from two countries come together in a vibrant spirit of collaboration and exchange.”

Bite-Size features 51 artists from Japan and the UK who have taken part in the various exchange projects over the past 15 years.