Setsuhi Shiraishi/Japanese Calligrapher

Osumi-Kagoshima Arts Festival2013
guest artist

Setsuhi Shiraishi/Japanese Calligrapher

Pursuing her own unique style of calligraphy while expressing the world of traditional calligraphy. The world she creates by subliming calligraphy into a composite art through collaboration with music, craft or fine art is highly regarded.

Having held personal exhibitions and participated in art fairs overseas such as in Paris. The live performances she has gave in collaboration with jazz, improvisation, classical music and other arts have attracted a large number of fans around the world.

Lecturer of the Aoyama Calligraphy School at Aoyama Bell Commons, Tokyo. Host of the calligraphy salon at the art space and cafeteria Sakaiki in Yotsuya-sanchome, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

To cite some of her activities in 2012: in London, U.K, she participated in an art competition at the Royal College of Art, and gave a calligraphy performance at the British Museum and a joint performance with the London Improvisers Orchestra. In Rennes, France, she gave a live performance and held a calligraphy workshop. In Japan, she held exhibitions and gave live performances at various places such as the live and dining club JZ Brat, the private salon Diners Club Ginza Lounge, and old houses with a Japanese traditional atmosphere.