The Poetry of Ayako Miyawaki

Ayako Miyawaki is a Japanese artist born in 1905 and died thirty years ago. Married to the painter Haru Miyawaki and mother of three children, she lived in Nagoya. In 1945, shortly after the Second World War, she began her artistic practice focusing on the traditional textile technique of "appliqué", which consists of sewing several pieces of material onto a larger surface, in order to create a new shape. Her works were inspired by everyday life: vegetables, fruits, fish, plants or flowers from her garden. This exhibition considers Ayako Miyawaki as an exceptional plastic artist in the context of Japanese fine arts and presents 150 works divided into eight chapters according to their plastic characteristics.