Research
Rebecca Salter
Research Interests
Contemporary printmaking, Japanese printmaking, Cultural History of Print, Edo Period Japanese popular culturePeer Esteem
Consultant on Japanese woodblock to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2003).
Member of TrAIN - UAL research centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation.
Work in Collections
(selected) Tate Gallery, London; The British Museum; The Bristih Council, Government Art Collection; Graphotek, Stadtbucherei Stuttgart; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Library of Congress, Washington DC.Biography - Profile
Rebecca Salter graduated from Bristol Polytechnic and then spent two years as a research student at Kyoto City University of the Arts, Japan. While In Japan she was trained in the technique of Japanese woodblock by Kurosaki Akira and she combines this interest with her main practice in painting. In 1997 she won the Cheltenham Open Drawing award (first prize), and in 1995 & 2003 respectively she was awareded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. In 2003 she was artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut and a suite of drawings produced during the residency were subsequently acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, New Haven.
Rebecca Salter's work has been featured in numerous international solo and group exhibitions since 1982, including several solo shows at Jill George Gallery, London (1994/98/2000), Howard Scott Gallery in New York (1997/99/2001/04), as well as Galerie Michael Sturm in Stuttgart, Germany (1999, 2001), Gallery Sowaka in Kyoto, Japan (1999/2000) and Fosterart, London (2004).
She is the author of several handbooks on the history of Japanese woodblock - her latest volume, 'Japanese Popular Prints - From Votiv Slips to Playing Cards' has been recently been published by A&C Black Ltd /University of Hawaii Press in June 2006.
Current Research - Artist Statement
"My painting, both in the way it is produced and the way it is perceived, is influenced by a meditative tradition which is widely considered oriental in origin and nature. Recent work concentrates on investigation of the quality and character of the drawn line with particular reference to differences between the occidental and the oriental.
My research related to woodblock focuses on the technique and how it is still used today and the role of woodblock in the production of everyday objects which are transformed to acquire deeper cultural significance. I am currently engaged in a 3 year film project to record interviews with surviving craftsmen/makers in Japan to produce a comprehensive archive of the techinique."
Recent Research Outputs
Forthcoming
2006-2008 Filmed archive of Japanese woodblock printing (funded by Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation)
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2006 'Bliss of Solitude', Beardsmore Gallery, London, UK
2004 'Line', 'Fosterart, London, UK
2004 Howard Scott Gallery New York, USA
2002 Hirschl Contemporary Art, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 'Untitled', work on paper, Hirschl Contemporary Art, London
2003 'Atlantic', Fosterart, London
2002 'Working the Grid', Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania, USA
Recent Residencies
2003 Artist in residence, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, USA
Selected Publications
Salter, R. (2006), 'Japanese Popular Prints - From Votiv Slips to Playing Cards', A&C Black Ltd /University of Hawaii Press
Salter, R. (2001), 'Japanese Woodblock Printing', A&C Black Ltd /University of Hawaii Press
2004 'Contemporary japanese print', article in Printmaking Today
2005 'Residency at the Albers Foundation', article in Printmaking Today
Supervision Expertise
Printmaking - Japanese and Contemporary, Woodblock Print.Related Links
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