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Satoko Tsuruta

TIMELESS

QUILT ART



Soak in the sun, then flow through
  the tunnel of water to the future,
An era that still shines beautifully even now.
I was fascinated and helped by such jidaigire*.
It’s been a long time,
Not only connecting certain patterns,
Like drawing your own image,
It is connected by various times.
The method is patchwork quilt.


NEWS

「HANBI Autumn exhibition」
Sep 28th(Sat)ー  Oct 5th(Sat)Tokyo

Metropolitan Art Museum
1st floor, Exhibition Room 2

Hanbikai in Belgium 🇧🇪
June 7th (Fri) - June 30th (Sun) 

first overseas exhibition in Brussels!!
many visitors came to the exhibition 

小見出し
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ARCHIVE

「HANBI exhibition 2024」
Mar 6th(Wed)ー  Mar 18th(Mon)
THE NATIONAL ART CENTER, TOKYO

「Tsuruta Satoko solo exhibition」
Kitakamakura old private house Museum

July 15,2023~Nov 5,2023


PROFILE

Satoko Tsuruta

Graduated from Osaka College of Music, Piano Course

Started patchwork quilt around 1980 by self-study.

Since then, I have held solo exhibitions every year in Tokyo, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Europe on the themes of the Silk Road and various cities’ light and shadow.

Aiming for contemporary expression, I create original designs from my inspirations.

At first, I used only Japanese jidaigire, but later I began to incorporate Indonesian, Indian, African, and European materials from the same era.
The depth, charm and beauty of those old textiles captures my heart.
In addition, I am grateful for the high spirituality of the people in the past who made them, and I am devoted to my craft every day.

 Active as an international quilt instructor certified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.



Tapestry collection


Past exhibition

1981 After the first solo exhibition
Omotesando, Aoyama, Roppongi, Ikebukuro,
Seisekisakuragaoka, Osaka, Kanazawa, Nagano
Solo exhibitions in various places in Japan

1988 Roppongi Striped House Museum
“Silk Road” Exhibition

1990 At the International Exchange Exhibition, France, Switzerland,Czechoslovakia, Hungary
Traveling exhibition in Germany and other countries

Have held a solo exhibition every year since then

2013 Participated in Paris Japan Expo
240,000 visitors in 5 days

2018 “Machida Silk Road” Exhibition at Machida Pario [art gallery]

2019 Quilt Japan Exhibition
Contemporary Category Silver Award Winner

2020 “Red Memories” joint exhibition with Mayu Kuroiwa at Machida Pario


What is Jidaigire

Jidaigire refers to old cloth from the late Edo period at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa eras, and is a word created to distinguish this cloth from more ancient textiles.
These textiles are made of silk, cotton, hemp, bashofu (woven cloth made from the fibers of the Japanese banana plant) (also known as “primitive cloth”), kudzu-fu (cloth made of fiber taken from the kudzu plant and woven by hand), and wisteria cloth.
Jidaigire also includes Indian, Indonesian, African and European materials from the same era.
They are beautiful materials that still shine through the ages.

What is Patchwork quilt

A quilt usually means a bed cover made of two layers of fabric with a layer of padding (wadding) in between, held together by lines of stitching.
Although closely linked to quilting, patchwork is a different needlework technique, with its own distinct history. Patchwork or “pierced work” involves sewing together pieces of fabric to form a flat design. An array of stitches is passed through all layers of the fabric to create a three-dimensional padded surface.

These techniques originated in Europe at a time when it was difficult to obtain even a single piece of cloth, so pieces of already worn clothes were often used. I reuse those parts in my work.

Patchwork quilting has gradually been elevated to an artistic craft, and now it is loved by people all over the world and has become part of everyone’s everyday life.



Using old materials to make new patchwork quilts enriches my life, expands my imagination and creativity, and keeps me excited, and I hope my work will also bring you happiness and appreciation of the craftspeople who originally made these beautiful materials.

I hope you enjoy this homepage, but also please come to see my artwork in person!

You can contact me through my manager, Shoko Araki,
at: shokoark@obirin.ac.jp