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Artists for Human Rights: Akane Takayama

Akane Takayama Sculptures: Stealth

<p><strong>Stealth</strong> displays the subterfurge of form, seemingly familiar yet strangely unaccountable, a shape <br />which echoes the natural but is clearly contived. but better</p><p>Akane Takayama's work appears on Human Rights TV's "Artists for Human Rights" because she<br />is an artist who has given her time to human rights work voluntarily for many years. Her work carries<br />the idea of juxtaposition, a dynamic between shapes, materials and construct which brings seemingly<br />implausible connections together. The inspiration for her work comes from her identity of a person from<br />one culture who has settled, lived and worked in another culture. As she has said, "If you leave the<br />land and place of your birth to live in a culture that is alien to you then there has to be something wrong<br />in your relationship with your cultural homeland."</p><p>This sense of 'something wrong' whispers constantly in Takayama's work. Her sculptures are possessed of<br />clean precise lines which flow through the form with stunning precision. She places the incongruous into a<br />harmonic partnership which is contained and made credible by the disciplined perspectives she always<br />maintains. The questions which naturally spring from seeing her work are compelling however, when presented<br />with the sculptures themselves, the viewer becomes drawn into a world of colour painted in a pallette made<br />vibrant by the shadows created in the shapes.</p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Akane Takayama</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">(b. 1957, Tokyo, Japan.)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Akane has lived and worked in London since 1985.</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Selected exhibitions at:</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London (1992)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Atlantis Gallery, London (1992)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Daiwa Foundation, London (1995)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Blue Gallery, London (1995)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mizuma Fine Art, Tokyo (1995)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Henry Peacock Gallery, London (2001)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Chelsea Physic Garden Sculpture Show, London (2002)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Domo Ball Gallery, London (2002)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2002)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Cafï¿½ Gallery Projects London (2004)</font></p><div align="left"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">Space Exhibition, London (2005)</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%" class="western" align="left"> </p><p>hrtvsh distributes Human Rights Videos and works to assist individuals, organisations and community groups. 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