TRAVELS IN A PAPER COAT, with Nikolai Azariah & Chris Beckett
APT Deptford, June/July 2018
For full details please see Isao's website
APT Deptford, June/July 2018
For full details please see Isao's website
Sketches from the Poem Road at Travelling Through
131 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE
Saturday 22 Oct - Friday 25 Nov, 2016
Isao's sketches, including some new ones, from his Narrow Road project will be shown in the exhibition space of this wonderful travel bookshop near Waterloo Station. For more details please see the bookshop's website: www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
Europe Japan Research Centre Seminar Series: Translating Bashō
with Isao Miura, painter/sculptor and Chris Beckett, poet/translator
Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 17:00 to 18:30
Oxford Brookes, JHBB 207, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Sketches from the Poem Road in the Glass Tank
Isao Miura & Chris Beckett
at The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
Monday, 20 June 2016 to Friday, 15 July 2016
9am-5pm Monday to Friday
This exhibition explores the rich legacy of Basho’s work, both visually and poetically, and it documents some of Isao’s artistic and physical journey from the deep north of Japan where he grew up, ‘translating’ Basho’s text not only into English words but into sketch, to plaster, and bronze. The exhibition will be accompanied by discussion events on Basho and the artistic journey, and a workshop on the haiku style of prose, called haibun, which is rapidly gaining popularity in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Isao and Chris will be available in the Glass Tank every Tuesday from 12noon to 2:00pm to introduce and discuss the exhibition with anyone who is interested.
Calendar of free events:
Tues 21 June, 6-8pm: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
"Artist Talk" with Nathalie Aubert and Isao Miura discussing the exhibition and the influence of Japanese calligraphy in modern art.
Sunday 3 July, 2-5pm: A Walk on the Poem Road
A chance to emulate Bashō’s type of literary pilgrimage and write your own haiku and haibun along the way.
Wednesday 6 July, 10am: Bashō at the Ashmolean
A special children's Haibun workshop in the Ashmolean Museum and the Glass Tank at Oxford Brookes.
Tuesday 12 July, 6-8pm: Bronze and the Art of Translation
A stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation, with John Nicoll, Nathalie Aubert, David Constantine, Sasha Dugdale and Thomas McAuley, chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.
Friday 15 July, 6-8pm: Gala Haibun Evening at the Glass Tank
With readings by Kate Clanchy, Robert Seatter and the Poem Road group, introduced by Isao Miura.
To attend any of these events, please contact: chris.beckett123@btinternet.com
Sketches from the Poem Road at the Poetry Society, Covent Garden
Mon 2nd March – Sat 25th April 2015
This exhibition, Sketches from the Poem Road, after Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, marks the beginning of Isao Miura’s journey in Basho’s footsteps, back to his roots in the ‘deep north’ of Japan. Isao left his village near Mount Chokai, the volcano in Kisagata Bay, to study painting in Tokyo, later moving to London to continue his studies. Now he is on an exciting journey to translateBasho’s Narrow Road into visual images, to explore its enduring emotional power, its culture-defining charm, through paintings, drawings, calligraphy and sculpture. For Isao, recently awarded a Fellowship in the bronze foundry at Chelsea College of Art, London, these drawings represent the point of departure of an artistic and emotional journey, which is also a kind of return.
Basho’s journey was a collaborative adventure with his friend, Sora, also a stylistic collaboration of poems and prose (Haibun). This exhibition and the accompanying pamphlet, Sketches from the Poem Road (Hagi Press, £10, on sale in The Poetry Café during the exhibition), are the result of Isao collaborating with poet Chris Beckett on an interpretative journey from text to image, and often back again.
Opening Launch: Thursday 5 March, 2015 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Closing Celebration: Thursday 23 April, 2015 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Free Events Calendar:
Sat 7 March 11am-3pm: A Walk on the Poem Road (meet at the Poetry Café, limited numbers)
Monday 23 March 7.30pm: Haibun Evening at the Poetry Café with Ken Jones, David Cobb, Anna Robinson, Karen McCarthy-Woolf, Lynne Rees, Valerie Josephs and others
Wed 15 April 2pm: Basho at the British Museum (study visit with Isao Miura & Chris Beckett)
You’ve written haiku – now try haibun!
Chris Beckett sets a challenge on the Young Poets Network: Haibun Challenge
131 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE
Saturday 22 Oct - Friday 25 Nov, 2016
Isao's sketches, including some new ones, from his Narrow Road project will be shown in the exhibition space of this wonderful travel bookshop near Waterloo Station. For more details please see the bookshop's website: www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
Europe Japan Research Centre Seminar Series: Translating Bashō
with Isao Miura, painter/sculptor and Chris Beckett, poet/translator
Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 17:00 to 18:30
Oxford Brookes, JHBB 207, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Sketches from the Poem Road in the Glass Tank
Isao Miura & Chris Beckett
at The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
Monday, 20 June 2016 to Friday, 15 July 2016
9am-5pm Monday to Friday
This exhibition explores the rich legacy of Basho’s work, both visually and poetically, and it documents some of Isao’s artistic and physical journey from the deep north of Japan where he grew up, ‘translating’ Basho’s text not only into English words but into sketch, to plaster, and bronze. The exhibition will be accompanied by discussion events on Basho and the artistic journey, and a workshop on the haiku style of prose, called haibun, which is rapidly gaining popularity in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Isao and Chris will be available in the Glass Tank every Tuesday from 12noon to 2:00pm to introduce and discuss the exhibition with anyone who is interested.
Calendar of free events:
Tues 21 June, 6-8pm: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
"Artist Talk" with Nathalie Aubert and Isao Miura discussing the exhibition and the influence of Japanese calligraphy in modern art.
Sunday 3 July, 2-5pm: A Walk on the Poem Road
A chance to emulate Bashō’s type of literary pilgrimage and write your own haiku and haibun along the way.
Wednesday 6 July, 10am: Bashō at the Ashmolean
A special children's Haibun workshop in the Ashmolean Museum and the Glass Tank at Oxford Brookes.
Tuesday 12 July, 6-8pm: Bronze and the Art of Translation
A stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation, with John Nicoll, Nathalie Aubert, David Constantine, Sasha Dugdale and Thomas McAuley, chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.
Friday 15 July, 6-8pm: Gala Haibun Evening at the Glass Tank
With readings by Kate Clanchy, Robert Seatter and the Poem Road group, introduced by Isao Miura.
To attend any of these events, please contact: chris.beckett123@btinternet.com
Sketches from the Poem Road at the Poetry Society, Covent Garden
Mon 2nd March – Sat 25th April 2015
This exhibition, Sketches from the Poem Road, after Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, marks the beginning of Isao Miura’s journey in Basho’s footsteps, back to his roots in the ‘deep north’ of Japan. Isao left his village near Mount Chokai, the volcano in Kisagata Bay, to study painting in Tokyo, later moving to London to continue his studies. Now he is on an exciting journey to translateBasho’s Narrow Road into visual images, to explore its enduring emotional power, its culture-defining charm, through paintings, drawings, calligraphy and sculpture. For Isao, recently awarded a Fellowship in the bronze foundry at Chelsea College of Art, London, these drawings represent the point of departure of an artistic and emotional journey, which is also a kind of return.
Basho’s journey was a collaborative adventure with his friend, Sora, also a stylistic collaboration of poems and prose (Haibun). This exhibition and the accompanying pamphlet, Sketches from the Poem Road (Hagi Press, £10, on sale in The Poetry Café during the exhibition), are the result of Isao collaborating with poet Chris Beckett on an interpretative journey from text to image, and often back again.
Opening Launch: Thursday 5 March, 2015 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Closing Celebration: Thursday 23 April, 2015 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Free Events Calendar:
Sat 7 March 11am-3pm: A Walk on the Poem Road (meet at the Poetry Café, limited numbers)
Monday 23 March 7.30pm: Haibun Evening at the Poetry Café with Ken Jones, David Cobb, Anna Robinson, Karen McCarthy-Woolf, Lynne Rees, Valerie Josephs and others
Wed 15 April 2pm: Basho at the British Museum (study visit with Isao Miura & Chris Beckett)
You’ve written haiku – now try haibun!
Chris Beckett sets a challenge on the Young Poets Network: Haibun Challenge
