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Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara at the Ashmolean

From:

16 April 2019
To:

06 October 2019
Ashmolean Museum
35 Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2PH

Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara at the Ashmolean

About Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara

Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara is a free display in Gallery 11 at the Ashmolean Museum.

Over 40 dynamic woodcuts selected to showcase the remarkable career of Naoko Matsubara, a distinguished Japanese artist based in Canada. Created over fifty years, these joyful works range from black and white to vibrant colour, intimate to monumental, playful to contemplative.

Free Admission

Images

Top: Detail from Dark Undercurrents, 1999, from the portfolio ‘Tokonoma’ (with haiku and tanka by James Kirkup), colour woodcut print

Right: Detail from Lifelines, 2015, colour woodblock print

Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara at the Ashmolean