Ashley Rawlings
Born in 1981 in London. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he took on Japanese Studies at Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he studies the history of Japanese post-war art at Sophia University and works as a freelance writer, translator and editor. As well as writing and editing for TABlog, he writes for the Japan Times and the ART iT website. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world. When not in galleries and museums or taking photographs, he enjoys losing himself in among Tokyo's skyscrapers, wandering silent streets, and riding out the occasional earthquakes. Will only consider returning to Britain once they've fixed the weather.
Articles
- Makoto Aida Exhibition opens at Mizuma Art Gallery
- Photographing the Fallen Sky
- New Gallery Building Opens in Ebisu
- Tokyo’s Urban Parasites
- Hiroaki Morita “Clockwise” opens at Aoyama | Meguro
- Wolfgang Tillmans “Lichter” Opens at Wako Works of Art
- Openings in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
- 101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair Launches
- Stanley Donwood “I Love the Modern World” Opens
- Classic Contemporary
- New Tokyo Contemporaries “End of the tunnel” Opens
- Roppongi Gallery Building Closes
- “The Edge” Opens at the Edge of Ginza
- Take Ninagawa Opens in Higashi Azabu
- Gallery Building Opens in Shirokane
- Destruction and Regeneration
- Art@Agnes 2008
- The Year in Art 2007
- Hiroshi Sugimoto “Leakage of Light” opens at Gallery Koyanagi
- The Rise of Japanamerica
- An Introduction to ‘Mono-ha’
- Curating from Outside Museums
- Projecting the Future of Art and Education
- Gherkin Watch: July
- Chiharu Nishizawa “For beautiful human life” Opening
- The opening of “Hiroshima, le souffle de l’explosion”
- Damien Hirst’s £50m artwork trashed
- Barry McGee’s graffiti opposite the Watari-um
- Gherkin Watch
- Political Architecture: Interview with Kisho Kurokawa
About TABlog
TABlog's writers and video reporters deliver regular reviews, features and interviews to stimulate discussion about all sides of Tokyo's creative scene.
