Time - Sun 1st May 2011 from 3:00pm to 3:00pm
Group - Arc architecture and built environment centre
Venue - Whitefriargate
Subjects - Art,
About

Artists Hsiao-Chi Tsai & Kimiya Yoshikawa will be the final artists to transform Whitefriargate’s streetscape as part of the ‘Arts in Empty Spaces’ scheme that has seen three high-profile artists illuminate the historic street. From Friday 25 February, three unusual large-scale dynamic sculptures titled ‘Rainbow-Friargate’ will be in place, inspired by the seaport character of Hull. Hsiao-Chi Tsai, from Taiwan, and Kimiya Yoshikawa, from Japan, have been working and exhibiting collaboratively since graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 2006. Their joint practice combines the varied expertise of Yoshikawa’s sculpture background and Tsai’s mixed-media textile designs. Their previous work includes ‘The Lion’ – a permanent public art sculpture made of perspex, jesmonite, fibreglass and steel, commissioned in 2009 for the entrance of Chinatown, London. This work won the duo second prize in the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture 2009. In 2007, the artists created ‘Futurist Flowers’, a shop front installation for Harvey Nichols department store in London.