April 23, 2020Rebecca Newnham
Artist’s exclusive: Japan Travel Blog – the Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is huge, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining:
“Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist deities, Shinto
deities and portraits of...
April 23, 2020Rebecca Newnham
Rebecca in Japan: Inspiration and Travel Blog – Team Labs
Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of Nezu, we went to Team Labs Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feasts.
It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely overwhelming. As we entered, we found a room leading to...
March 19, 2020Rebecca Newnham
Rebecca in Japan: Inspiration and Travel Blog – Nezu
Nezu is a museum and art gallery with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I visited in Japan, and I was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with a rush-like mat, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water plays...
March 17, 2020Rebecca Newnham
Rebecca in Japan: Inspiration and Travel Blog – Senso-Ji Temple
Koi, temples and aquaponics in Japan.
Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience.
My daughter is working in Japan and we travelled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I...
February 28, 2020Rebecca Newnham
The timely development of STEM to STEAM
Last night I was invited to attend an event hosted by Carole Bent, a creative catalyst and Bill Cotton from the BCP council, which bought together 8 local creatives and considered the values of art in the school curriculum. It was held at Talbot Heath school. Led by Angharad Holloway, Talbot Heath already pioneers STEAM education and has recently...
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Revolutionary Allusion Collaboration with Lizzie Sykes – we are fig.
Allusion uniquely combines dance, film and glass sculpture and is the result of a creative collaboration between Rebecca Newnham and Lizzie Sykes. It consists of a site-specific dance film projected through and onto a curved sculptural glass screen. The glass sculpture was made to reflect the film, and its enamelled surface captures the...