This is the first Catalogue Raissoné on the art of Tokuko Shimizu, a housewife whose creative path evolved alongside the chores of her Tokyo home. With an ongoing interest in art, history and culture and a serious commitment to exploring diverse techniques, her works in oil, weaving, Japanese dye, and fabric patchwork collage, display great inventiveness and vitality.
The book concentrates on Shimizu’s series of textile exhibition posters, embroidered on commission by her artist daughter, Miho, from 2002 to 2008. Beautiful color reproductions of the posters are interspersed with new photographic projects by Gottingham that explore the personal relationship between mother and daughter.
Accompanied by an in-depth interview and a detailed index and exhibition history, the book chronicles the overlap of art and life in a family with a rare artistic collaboration.