IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Brown's accepted submission to the International Mokuhanga Conference Europe juried exhibition, held in Echizen in 2024. IMC, organized through the International Mokuhanga Conference network, brings together practitioners from across the global mokuhanga community for symposia, workshops, and a curated exhibition; the Echizen iteration was hosted in the historic paper-making region of Fukui Prefecture, where Brown also undertook her MI-LAB residency that same year. Listed as representing England, Brown contributed to a roster of artists working within and adapting the traditional mokuhanga vocabulary — water-based pigments, hand-cut cherry or shina blocks, [kento](/glossary/kento) registration, and [baren](/glossary/baren)-rubbed transfer onto [washi](/glossary/washi) — to contemporary expression. As a juried IMC submission, the print would have been produced to exhibition standard, typically printed on heavyweight [kozo](/glossary/kozo) washi in editions intended for international circulation. The work documents the convergence of Brown's residency training and exhibition practice within a single year, situating her output alongside European, North American, and Japanese contemporaries engaged in the ongoing transmission of the mokuhanga technique outside its country of origin.