James I, 1566–1625, king of England (1603–25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567–1625). James's reign witnessed the beginnings of English colonization in North America (Jamestown was founded in 1607) and the plantation of Scottish settlers in Ulster.
Brian Falconbridge
Brian Falconbridge has visited East-Asia regularly since 1989 and has a strong interest in the cross-cultural in relation to Euro-Asian studies, notably as contained within Japanese visual culture, thought and poetry. This appreciation informs both his own research and supervision within fine art practice and the challenges implicit within the discipline and priorities of the sculptural object in contemporary contexts.
Works by Falconbridge research and propose associations between the continuing western European metaphysical tradition (historically most often carried in paintings such as the work of Zurbaran, de Chirico and Morandi) and aspects of embedded Japanese thought and aesthetics associated with modesty of material and isolation (as encapsulated in the concept of "wabi-sabi"), economy of scale including "hakoniwa" (the world in miniature).
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