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Hideko Inoue
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patterns I, 2007
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'...in collaboration with Klykken, she paints on a larger scale photographs of Klykken's grandparents: a grandfather mending a net - it hangs between us and him in the painting like a veil distancing us from him like the passing years; a grandmother knitting, her lips pursed in concentration, the finished pieces of a garment laid out on the table before her...
...Pattern Recognition is a delicate, appealing show which sees two emerging artists recognising patterns across time and across two countries, culturally and geographically distant. It's an empathetic study of the patterns which connect us to the past, and to one another.'
Mansfild, S. (2007) Review of Pattern Recognition exhibition at Atticsalt gallery. 'The Scotsman' Tuesday the 14th of August, 2007.
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lamb, 2007
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patterns II (detail)
oil on canvas, 35.7 x 25.5 cm, 2007
lamb (detail)
oil on canvas, 30.5 x 20.5 cm, 2007
tulips (deyail)
oil on canvas, 61.0 x 71.0 cm, 2007
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patterns II, 2007
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tulips, 2007
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baby, 2006
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‘Hideko Inoue has turned to her personal family history in a group of paintings based on photographs of her deceased grandfather’s early life in Japan. In a similar effect to Smith’s paintings, Inoue’s work imbues these carefree snapshots with a nostalgia and depth well beyond their original form and, with the addition of handmade object representing the artist’s life in Scotland, presents a narrative connecting the two countries and histories.’ (33-34)
Williams, E. (2005) Review of Newcontemporaries 2005. ‘Art Monthly’ 289, 33-34.
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baby (detail)
oil on canvas
17.7 x 25.4 cm
2006
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kid (detail)
oil on canvas
40.5 x 30.5 cm
2006
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kid, 2006
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I am currently employing a variety of approaches to debate notions of people, place and time. My personal experiences of living in two countries have prompted me to reflect upon the extent to which individuals are a product of their genetic make-up or of their environment i.e., nature or nurture. I have personalised this by producing a series of paintings, based on old black and white photographs, including family snapshots, where selected individuals have been relocated to a modern world of colour, i.e., colours and other visual information are manipulated in order to update memories of historical events.
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