The touring exhibition Textural Space: contemporary Japanese textile art opened in April 2001 as one of the first events of ‘Japan 2001’ and was an extremely successful project. It has achieved all its target objectives and has received a huge, appreciative response from the public with 83,415 visitors during its eight-month tour of the U.K. The exhibition highlighted the beauty and skill of Japanese textile artists’ response to the texturing of space. The breathtaking spectacle of the monumental work in ‘Textural Space’, assimilating aspects of architectural space including construction, light, materials and perspective was made possible through the technical facility of the artists. The artists brought together a combination of material understanding and intention that the completed work would work in harmony with its surrounding space.

"In our textiles units in the Art Online degree at Curtin University, we direct students to the ‘textural space’ url as a research point for a number of artists….. It’s a great website and really good research point for our students."
Moira Doropoulos,
BA Art (Online) via Open Universities Australia

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Image top: Naomi Kobayashi 'Ma 2000'
Image below: Machiko Agano 'Untitled'