Monday Night

Monday Night brings together the fashion designer and artist Yoko Brown and the artist Noriko Okaku in a collaboration spanning clothing, textiles, animation and tarot.

Okaku, who is Japanese, divides her time between Kyoto and London. She works in participatory installation, performance and animation, and builds her pieces by collage, setting unlike materials, viewpoints and ideas beside one another to see what fresh readings and unexpected returns come of putting them into circulation together. She has exhibited widely abroad, at Towada Art Center, at Kanazawa's 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, at Nuit Blanche in Paris and at QUAD in Derby.

Brown is based in London and has spent more than twenty years making one-off garments that push traditional tailoring towards sculpture. Historical dress, hand craftsmanship and the vintage shirts of Jermyn Street all feed the work, which she arrives at by taking existing garments apart and rebuilding them, so that each finished piece carries something of individuality, memory and the history of its materials. Cascading ruffles and sculptural silhouettes sit against precise tailoring, and the result treats clothing as a way of telling a story rather than as seasonal fashion. She has shown in House Party with DZEK at Kate MacGarry Gallery in London in 2016, in BIG WOMEN at Firstsite in Colchester in 2023, and in elective affinities Part II at agnes b. Galerie Boutique in Tokyo in 2024. Her collections are stocked at The Light House in Soho.

Suffolk was Brown's home for many years, which makes showing in Saxmundham a homecoming.

The exhibition is accompanied by CRUB Club, a designer pop-up shop, and by a series of workshops that The Art Station will announce on Instagram.