Ecaterina Ileana Bitay earned a magna cum laude on her PhD thesis: "SIMBOL SI TEHNICĂ ARHAICĂ-RAPEL IN CREAłIA CONTEMPORANA" at the Universitatea de Arta si Design Din Cluji-Napoca, Rumania. In it she studies the history of Shibori/Ikat/Batik up to today and lists on p. 12f of the English translation those artists that helped significantly to reposition the Shibori technique in the artistic field:
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I made an analysis of the creation and innovation activity of numerous artists in the textile field, who contributed significantly to the development of the Shibori technique and its repositioning in the artistic field.
These are: Jun’ichi Arai, Hiroshi Murase, Tsuyoshi Kuno, Trine Mauritz Eriksen, Elisa Ligon, Reiko Sudo, Jurgen Lehl, Awa Cissé, Andrea Serrahn, Yoshiko Jinzenji, Sara Chiarugi, Catharine Ellis Muerdter, Hideko Takahashi, Yuh Okano, Joan Morris, Mascha Mioni, Patricia Black, Angelina Deantonis, Issey Myake, Makiko Minagawa, Yohsi Yamamoto, Asha Sarabhai, Marian Clayden, Carter Smith, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Carol Lee Shanks, D’Archie Beytebiere, Mike Kane, Steve Sells, Mariana Carreno, Dorita Gomien, Karren Brito, Lori Bacigalupi, Marshall Bacigalupi, Ioan Mc Gee, Mark Thomas, Genevieve Dion, Barbara Rogers, Jeung-hwa Park, Mie Iwatsubo, Héléne Soubeyran, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yukiko Echigo, Michie Yamaguchi, Kaei Hayakawa, Keiko Amenomori – Schmeisser, Junco Sato Pollack, Joan Morris, Inge Dusi, Lynn Klein, Jean Williams Cacicedo, Marie-Héléne Guelton, Chad Alice Hagen, Judith Content, Liz Axford, Jan Myers-Newbury, Peter Wheeler, Sharon Baurley, Masae Bamba, Yuh Okano, Moira Doropoulos, Terri Fletecher, Emily Dubios, Elisa Ligon, Linda Lee Kerr, Lessley Nishigawara. "
article and photo by Susi Rothmund in the Swiss newspaper Quotidiana
Caroline Ho Ka Hei writes in her thesis for the Bachelor of Arts at the Institute of Textiles & Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
p. 31/32:
"In this section, six textiles designers who are renowned for their heat-setting technique applications were studied: Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Barbara Rogers, Jean Williams Cacicedo, Jun'ichi Arai, Mascha Mioni and Tsuyoshi Kuno.
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the reason of these six designers being studied in this project was due to their profound contribution to the development of heat-setting technique. Their exquisite art pieces raised my interest in heat-setting and thus set off this study.
p. 43-47:
"2.6.5 Mascha Mioni
Growing up in Switzerland, Mascha Mioni is a painter whose oil paintings on canvas were exhibited all over Europe. Later in 1986, as she studied dress-making, she started to develop silk paintings and design silk dresses. Her artistic dresses were shown in different places in the world, including Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Together with six other textile artists, Mioni published a series of three books “Art To Wear” from 1990 to 2005.
Fig. 2.6.5(1a) to Fig. 2.6.5(3c) show the dresses by Mioni in the exhibition “Transformation: Material˙ Magic˙ Memory”. From Fig. 2.6.5(4) to Fig. 2.6.5(7c) are some other works of Mioni.
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complete thesis c.f. pdf
gallaria d'art RdeC, Disentis Meldung in "LA QUOTIDIANA" vom 8.12.2009 ...Las picturas abstractas da Mascha Mioni che resplendan en bellezia colurs e derasan ina ruasseivladad surprendenta stattan en cumpleina harmonia cullas sculpturas da betun e veider da Lawrence McLaughlin.....
The art critic Marianne Mittelholzer writes in the art magazine contemporaryart futuro: "... The theme of Mascha Mionis installation "Skins of Humanity" is the relationship between body and soul. ....In the same way that a dress floats around the human body, the written thoughts hover around the mind of a human being. ..." (webmasters translation)