Reiwa 5rd Summer Vacation Art Program

Let's make it with Cyanotype! Kage and Hikari's experimental art [Ended]

In 5, we welcomed Manami Hayasaki, an artist based in Ota Ward who is active in exhibitions and art festivals both domestically and internationally, as a lecturer.

The summer vacation art program aims to create opportunities for children in Ota Ward to come into contact with art. Based on the keywords of shadow and light, which are important elements of Hayasaki's work, we held a workshop where you could enjoy science and art using blue photographs and cyanotypes created using sunlight.

In the first part, we made a pinhole camera and enjoyed the upside-down view seen through the small peephole, learning how a camera works to form an image using light and shadow. In the second part, we created a collage of various materials using cyanotype art, an art of shadow and light created in the bright summer sunlight.

Through the workshop and interaction with Mr. Hayasaki, the participants had an opportunity to learn and play with the phenomena and effects caused by natural light, which we take for granted during the day.

The venue, Ota Bunka no Mori, is a public cultural facility with a library attached. With the cooperation of the facility, recycled books were used as materials for cyanotypes.

• Venue: Ota Cultural Forest Second Creation Workshop (Art Room)
• Date and time: Saturday, August 5th and Sunday, August 8th, 19, 20:10-00:12, 00 times in total
• Lecturer: Manami Hayasaki (artist)

All Photo: Daisaku OOZU

Manami Hayasaki (Artist)

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Born in Osaka, lives in Ota Ward. In 2003, she graduated from the Department of Japanese Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, and in 2007, she graduated from BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She creates works that examine human nature as seen through the relationship between natural history and humanity, primarily through installations made of paper. Although the objects have strong flat elements, they are placed in space and drift vaguely between flat and three-dimensional. In addition to participating in "Rokko Meets Art Art Walk 2020" and "Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival 2022," he has held many solo and group exhibitions.