Tomoyo Tsurumi is a textile designer-artist based in Tokyo and London.
With her background of studying textile design, she works with textile as a medium to express and explore new textures, using both innovative and traditional techniques. She explores interaction and reaction between material, people, and space, seeking to establish a method to enhance the sensory and contemplative experience. Specializing in textile, she has been experimenting with various materials and exploring to go beyond the boundary of techniques, especially focusing on weave and its structure. Of her interest in in-between spatial context, she researches a method to compose atmospheric quality for sensory experience, manipulating context of space by intervening architectural space with fluidity of textile, activating sensorial experience with subtle phenomenon.
Education
2021-2023 - Royal College of Art MA Textiles
2018 - Tama Art University Textile Design Department
2016 - Gerrit Rietveld Academie (exchange programme)
Grants & Awards
2023 - The Textile Society Student Bursaries
2023 - Nomura Foundation Art & Culture Scholarship
2022 - Pola Art Foundation
2018 - Tama Art University Honor Work for BA Textile Design Department
2016,2017 - Tama Art University Honor Student Scholarship
Exhibitions & Residency
2024 - Exhibition 'A Matter of Life' at TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
2024 - Exhibition Pola Museum Annex 2024 'Commendation and intention'
at Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan.
2024 - Art Fair Tokyo 2024 (represented by Pola Art Foundation)
2023 - Exhibition 'layered' at Gallery Stoop, Tokyo, Japan.
2023 - Advance Textile Program at TextielLab, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
2023 - absence of absolute -dialogue at teto- exhibition, London
2023 - Royal College of Art Final Show at Truman Brewery, London
2022 - Studio Aphorisma Residency Scholarship, Italy
2022 - Design Campus Dresde
2022 - Experiemental Studio: Jacquard, Textile Center Haslach, Austria
2021 - 'yuhl' collaborative work exhibition at Base Milano, Milan Design Week