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A new collection of large cushions featuring a series of paintings by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. 

Each cushion comes with a Kosuke Ajiro maker's tag and story card.

*Includes recycled polyester eco fibre fill - made from post consumer PET plastic bottles, allergy friendly and fully recyclable.

Piped edged in a rust/orange and backed in a stone colour - both printed beautifully to match the painting.

Printed onto a Luxurious 100% Panama cotton. Made in Staffordshire, England.

Dry clean cover only.

Size: 60 x 45cm

GODS, DREAMS & FAIRY TALES

We are excited to launch, for the first time in the UK, a collection of original paintings and a series of limited edition cushions by celebrated Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro.

Medieval scrolls, tapestries, frescoes, quilts, folk-lore and dreams are all cited as inspiration for the artist. To look into one of Ajiro-san’s paintings is to get lost within another world, one full of mandrakes, winged-cardinals, puppets, flowers, mysterious writings, kings, queens and knights, forest creatures and tree roots.

Based in Tokyo, Kosuke Aijro is celebrated in Japan for his fascinating work, with several important solo exhibitions and publications in Japanese, we are delighted to make his work available to a wider audience.

Our immediate response to seeing Ajiro-san’s work for the first time was one of complete fascination. At once they recalled characters from an Angela Carter novel, illuminated mediaeval manuscripts and pages from ancient Herbals and alchemists’ books.

The twelve paintings are new works created exclusively for The Shop Floor Project. For the new cushion collection Kosuke Ajiro allowed us access to his archive of paintings, including a jaw dropping four-metre longs ‘scroll’ from which we selected two sections for the textile panels to make into cushions; Dynasty Crown and Dynasty Wheel. Other cushions include Taking Root which appears to be life under ground, below a tree with pair of mandrakes flowering above.  In Soul Transporter an audience, including a character with hand puppets are looking out from their seats at a magicians show we can’t see.