Japanese Woodblock Prints
Fusako Yoshikawa
18 March - 08 May, 2026
Northern Print is delighted to be hosting Japanese artist Fusako Yoshikawa. After 20 years in Ouseburn, Fusako is visiting again and showing many of her beautiful prints in the exhibition alongside works by two other Japanese artists - Satoko Saito and Mariko Sugito.
Fusako Yoshikawa - Print Demonstration
Filmed in Northern Print Space, 24 March 2026
Background
Fusako has worked with Northern Print since 1999, when she took part in a print exchange with other artists from Nagoya Print Works in Japan and artists from Northern Print, which was then based on Fish Quay in North Shields. Following on from this project, in the Summer of 2001, Fusako completed a residency at Northern Print, on Fish Quay, alongside two other artists from Japan – Eriko Maki and Chikako Yamamoto. In a series of printmaking master classes given by the artists during their residency, they shared their skills, experiences and ideas with artists and the public in the North. The work created during the residency was shown in a touring exhibition in the North of England.
In 2010, Northern Print invited Fusako to undertake another residency in its new home in Ouseburn, where she gave another inspirational masterclass in Japanese Woodblock printing and showed new prints in the gallery.
"These are highly sophisticated images with a subtle and dynamic sense of visual language. All the parts of the working process - paper, tools, woodblock, inks and shapes are equally important in producing the final, beautifully composed picture"
- Mike Collier 2001
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