Sià ¢n Bowen & Christopher Jones

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Sià ¢n Bowen and Christopher Jones were both Japanese Government Scholars at Kyoto City University of Arts during the late 1980s. Since 2005 they have made a number of return visits to Japan in order to develop projects, both individual and collaborative. The two bodies of works presented for this exhibition - Sià ¢n Bowen's images of folding tea house models on lacquered papers and Christopher Jones's print assemblages exploring memory, place and erasure - reflect a range of Japanese cultural references from aesthetics to notions of renewal. This exhibition is organised by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. It is supported by Northumbria University and Newcastle University.