Armel Barraud 2010 10th. July Seikado Gallery

For 2 months she has been in Kyoto for an Artist in Residence with Franco Japonais Intitute.
She is staying at Villa Kujoyama.

She is begining to make her work in the kura (storehouse) gallery at Seikado.

I went to meet Armel to at seikado - that is the oldest metal crafts company in Japan.

She wanted to ask me some questions about her work. I could just help a little bit.

According to Seikado's owner Mr.Ymanaka's blog, Armel had showed her work at an exhibition at Maison et Objet in France. He invited her to come to use the Seikado storehouse to create her works.

She will show her works there from Sept 11th to Sept 20th as an installation.

She also studied animation and she also studied bobbin lace. She uses a good combination of traditional techniques with her own original techniques. Her metalwork looks like fluid one line drawing, thin delicate sketches which are like storyboard images. The lighting casts shadows of the works on the wall behind them, so when I look at her work, it seems to move.
This "sketch" of many parts creates an enjoyable story for me.

I think it will be an interesting exhibition.

The owner's wife, Kazuko Yamanaka is a metalwork artist who makes crochet objects and large works as well as beautiful jewellery.