Biography
Leah Crews is a UK-based mokuhanga artist who participated in the juried international exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan. The 2021 conference, themed around sumi (black ink), brought together mokuhanga practitioners from around the world to exhibit and discuss the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Crews's selection for this prestigious juried exhibition places her among the recognized community of international mokuhanga practitioners.
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- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Leah Crews is a UK-based mokuhanga artist who participated in the juried international exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan. The 2021 conference, themed around sumi (black ink), brought together mokuhanga practitioners from around the world to exhibit and discuss the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. Crews's selection for this prestigious juried exhibition places her among the recognized community of international mokuhanga practitioners.
Leah Crews's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.