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The Old Man is a fell in Coniston, in the heart of the English Lake District. 'Fell' is a term that indicates a hill or highland derived from the old Norse, the language of Vikings settled in the Lake District. The fell is so named because it looks like the profile of an old man's face from a distance. It brings back my childhood memories of climbing a small mountain called Takahira-yama with my orphanage friends so often. Herdwick is a breed of domestic sheep native to the Lake District, once in danger of extinction. It is said that Beatrix Potter played a key role in saving Herdwick. I depicted this sheep standing on the top of the Old Man, as it were, a guardian of the land and a witness to its history. I created the work with a diptych style to contrast the sheep’s presence with the surroundings using my original line hatching method. This method is created through the inspiration of the concept of designo, which was established in the Florentine School during the Renaissance, combined with neurological studies, which reveal that the human visual brain perceives objects predominantly by oriented lines. Hence, the title Sheep on a Fell (Diptych). The diptych was originated in Greece and adopted into Christianity as a portable altarpiece for travelling. I explored to enhance the concept for indicating the dualistic meaning, such as life and death, light and darkness, visible and invisible, etc., which has become obsolete in our materialistic society. In this way, I attempted to create a narrative interweaving a notion of history and philosophy with my reflection on art and a sense of place.
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2021
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Hideyuki Sobue
United Kingdom
Japanese visual artist Hideyuki Sobue (b. 1965), who graduated from Osaka University of Arts, lives and works in the Lake District, UK, yet grew up as an orphan in Aichi, Japan. Working with drawing and painting, two historical media that have served as a fundamental means of communication since prehistoric times, he explores the unbroken line in the relationship between art and humanity. Sobue uses an entirely original brush hatching technique employing Japanese sumi ink and acrylic. Created through a fusion of influences - the concept of Disegno in the Florentine school of the Renaissance, oriental artistic heritage and neurological studies - Sobue’s medium attempts to create a platform bridging East and West, and explore the interdisciplinary approach related to the human act of seeing, delving into the mystery and uniqueness of humanity. Sobue has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Japan. Notable exhibitions include 'A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix' commissioned by the National Trust and supported by Arts Council England
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