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Installation view, Correspondences, Frestonian Gallery (2021) Courtesy of Frestonian Gallery
Paul de Monchaux and Tess Jaray first met as students at the Slade School of Art in the 1950s. Their friendship was then rekindled in 1986 when they both took part in the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival where de Monchaux showed sculpture in the Whitechapel Gallery Garden and Jaray presented her first brick floor piece. As each went on to pursue their separate careers they remained in contact, exchanging ideas, thoughts and influences and discussing common interests while also each exploring their very own very particular relationship with abstraction.
Over the ensuing years they also went on to make important public projects including Jaray’s floor for the concourse of Victoria Station, her forecourt for the British Embassy in Moscow and the Wakefield Cathedral precinct and De Monchaux’s war memorial in Norwich, stone sculpture complex in Birmingham’s Oozells Squa
Lena Yokoyama uses illustration as a translation tool for intrinsic words or phrases
The recent Camberwell graduate’s practice sees her collaborate with her translator father to visually present untranslatable words.
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Despite always loving the act of drawing, it was by discovering printmaking that London-based Lena Yokoyama fell head-over-heels for illustration. Joining Camberwell College of Art’s course in 2016, “as cheesy as this might sound,” she tells It’s Nice That, “I knew from the beginning that I had found my passion.”
The revolution in Lena’s practice however was when she acquired her own Risograph printer in second year, not only allowing her the freedom to print, but begin an illustrative approach centring around “thinking and drawing in layers”, as she describes. Spending the next two years developing this technique, as well as hunkering down on the themes and subject matter she wished to present, Lena graduated with a tone of voice com