Autumn Moon Closing Celebrations

My solo exhibition Autumn Moon is on at the moment at Port Jackson Press Gallery with etching prints and ceramic figurines.

Closing celebrations of the exhibition is Saturday 8 October 2-4pm with music, themed food and drinks! If you are around, please pop in, I'd love to see you!

Autumn Moon

Runs until 13 October

Closing Celebrations on Saturday 8 October 2-4pm

Port Jackson Press Gallery

84 Smith Street

Collingwood

VIC 3066

Hiding spot I, 2016 

Hop, 2016

Snatchers, 2016

Draw me a story

Rabbit island, 2016

I'm part of this exciting group exhibition Draw me a Story at Blarney Books and Art - annual exhibition showcasing Australian children's picture book illustrations presented by Customs House Gallery. I'm showing some of the original illustrations from Following book I launched with Jeff Maser Booksellers at Melbourne Art Book Fair earlier this year and some etchings.

Artists include Gaye Chapman, Dinalie Dabarera, Sarag David, Sandra Eterovic, Daniella Germain, Elise Hurst, Kyoko Imazu, Alison Lester, Andrew McLean, Lucia Masciullo, Leila Rudge, Craig Smith, Tull Suwannakit, Owen Swan, Shaun tan, Rita Voutila 

Sweeping, 2016

Draw me a story
28 August - 2 October
Blarney Books and Art
37 James Street
Port Fairy
VIC Australia
Thursday - Sunday 11am - 4pm

Storytellers

Commune

Storytellers is my solo exhibition at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery in Canberra showcasing my prints and artist books. 

It's my first time showing in Canberra and I feel so honoured to have my works at Megalo - my dream studio that I've always wanted to visit. I hope to see you there on 7th July if you are in Canberra.

Storytellers

Saturdaty 2 - Saturday 23 July

Opening 7 July 6-8pm

With an opening speech by Mr Takashi Katae, Minister, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan

Megalo Print Studio + Gallery 

21 Wentworth Avenue

Kingston

ACT 2604

Storytellers' opening party is proudly supported by Asahi breweries

Small Gathering - exhibition

Kokeshi

Small Gathering is a latest ceramic exhibition at Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne.

Collection of small ceramic figurines shows worlds of creatures from my childhood memories and stories. This new medium has taken me an interesting direction from adapting 2D works into 3D representations since last year and I'm so excited to be showing these works for the first time in Melbourne after my two solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York last year.

work in progress ceramic busts

Melbourne Art Book Fair 2016

an illustration from Following, 2016

I'm launching a new book at Melbourne Art Book Fair starting Friday 29 April to Sunday 1 May at National Gallery of Victoria with Jeff Maser Bookseller from Berkeley, CA.

I have been extremely fortunate to be working with Jeff, Andrea (Jeff Maser Bookseller) and unbelievably talented graphic designer Stephen Horsley at Propellant in London.

The book is called 'Following' and is a visual book (with a short intro) with only images to guide the story through. Story is based on my secret experience of seeing a little boy who followed me when I was a child.

Jeff, Andrea and Stephen did such a marvelous job designing this book - when I saw Stephen's mock-up design, it was one of the most exciting moment in my work.

My huge respect to graphic designers.

I'll be there at NGV with Jeff and Andrea and there is an exciting launch event on 1 May, 2:30-3:00!

We'll be displaying original artwork and we'll say a few words...

If you are free, please come and we can chat too!

Melbourne Art Book Fair

29 April - 1 May

Free Entry

NGV International

180 St Kilda Road

Melbourne

Book launch, presented by Jeff Maser Bookseller

1 May 2:30-3:00

Discussion space, NGV International

Display of original artworks and a little bit of speeches :)

an illustration from Following 2016

Mine, says the cat

Mine, says the cat, 2016

Mine, says the cat is one of the latest prints featuring a couple and giant cat.

Title of this print is the first line of Marge Piercy's poem 'The cat's song'.

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.

My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says

the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing

milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.

Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.

I’ll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,

to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.

Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.

You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,

says the cat, although I am more equal than you.

Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?

Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?

Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.

My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.

My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the mornings

walking round and round your bed and into your face.

Come I will teach you to dance as naturally

as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.

I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.

Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word

of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg

and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass.

Exhibition - Animal Instinct

Paintings, drawings, printmaking and sculpture by: 
Anita Barrett, Dean Bowen, Jazmina Cininas, Rona Green, Bridget Farmer, Gillie and Marc, Gracia Haby + Louise Jennison, Lucy Hardie, Kyoko Imazu, Sheridan Jones, Adrian Lockhart, John Ryrie, Judi Singleton, Jess Szigethy-Gyula, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Deborah Williams and Gail Willoughby

Since prehistoric cave paintings and throughout art history, animals have appeared in many guises in mythology and storytelling, and their physical and behavioral attributes have supplied artists with a wealth of inspiration and artistic metaphor. Even the internet has become a menagerie of animal photos and videos!

Metropolis Gallery is excited to present Animal Instinct, which explores how artists view animals and at times appropriate their characteristics to make sense of the human species and connect more with the natural world.

Animal Instinct

5 - 19 March

Opening Saturday 5 March, 5 - 7pm

Metropolis Gallery

64 Ryrie Street, Geelong VIC 3220 Australia

03 5221 6505

info@metropolisgallery.com.au

Night chase, 2016

Forest race, 2016

Treasure box - latest print

Treasure box

I think we all had a little treasure box as a child.
Mine had letters from friends, letters to the future self and little toys I bought from Gacha Gacha machine (you put a coin and turn a lever attached to the machine, a capsule containing a toy comes out) in Japan.
I used to bury it with friends as a time capsule on the corner of school yard or side of local shrines and temples and we made a promise that we would dig it up after 10 years.
We would go back and try to dig again after few months despite the promise - but we never found our treasure boxes again. It's still a mystery.

Treasure Box is one of the latest etching print.
This brand new print will be exhibited at Metropolis Gallery in Geelong, VIC Australia as part of a group exhibition Animal Instinct from 5 -19 March along with many diverse and amazing printmakers in Australia interpreting animals in their works.

Artists include:
Anita Barrett, Dean Bowen, Jazmina Cininas, Rona Green, Bridget Farmer, Gillie and Marc, Gracia Haby + Louise Jennison, Lucy Hardie, Sheridan Jones, Kyoko Imazu, Adrian Lockhart, John Ryrie, Judi Singleton, Jess Szigethy-Gyula, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Deborah Williams and Gail Willoughby

Animal Instinct
5 - 19 March
Opening Saturday 5 March, 5 -7pm

Metropolis Gallery
64 Ryrie Street
Geelong
VIC 3220
Australia

Mural at Angliss Children's Centre

I had such an amazing time working on a mural in a kindergarten this week with my good friend and mural master Tom Civil. Tom is also a printmaker and I have been admiring his work for a long time and I had such an honour to work with him on  this project.

Tom created the landscape, gum trees, bottlebrush flowers and his signature stick folks and I made Australian animals of kangaroo, ringtail possums, wombats, wagtails, kookaburra and crows.

It was wonderful to be hanging with local community and receive lots of positive comments from the parents who picked up their children from the centre.

Local girl Topaz came helping us paint the wall too.

Topaz and Tom

Tom - photo by Chantal Wynter

Tom's stick folks having a meeting - photo by Chantal Wynter

Photo by Chantal Wynter

We'd love to thank Angliss Children's Centre, and the committee members especially Chatal Wynter who has been the driving force and even helped us paint the stinky clear protective coating with us :)

Also the community of Footscray - a place with one of my fondest memory in Melbourne who hanged out, offered us food and drinks and lovely comments and the parents and children who supported us! 

Dance

New mini print I made for Leftover Print Exchange project!

Dance, 2016

EDITIONS 2016

EDITIONS 16 is an annual exhibition showcasing Melbourne printmaking at Tacit Contemporary Art. It's a wonderful opportunity to see so many wonderful prints in one exhibition.
It has been going bigger and bigger every year and this year Tacit extended the gallery space and we are taking over the entire gallery space!!

Hope to see you at the opening!

EDITIONS 16
10 - 28 February 2016
Opening Wednesday 10 February 6:30 - 8pm
312 Johnston Street
Abbotsford
VIC 3067
Australia

The Great Wave, 2015

Stories and Prints IV - The Great Wave

The Great Wave, 2015

Inspired by “Kanagawa-oki name ura”, of Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, this whimsical piece tells the tale of Kalypso, daughter of Oceanus. She embraces all sea creatures as her friends - particularly fish and lobsters.

A mischievous water nymph, Kalypso calls on a great wave to transport her and her friendly flounder fish to Tokyo.

Caught in her wave, like butterflies in a net, are - chickens from Adelaide, Siamese cats from Taipei, a few English motorists, and Scruffy the Rabbit.

Today was the last day of Call of the Wild at Odd One Out in Hong Kong.
Thank you so much Phemie for making this such a wonderful show and Huda for creating beautiful stories for my prints.

Stories and Prints III - Friends of the Night

Friends of the Night, 2015

Once every year, as the stars tumble out of the night sky, Erebus of the shadows celebrates falling in love when Nyx, goddess of darkness. Their young daughter Aether escapes into a heavenly garden and calls to her friends of the night.

Cats, rabbits, and birds from all corners of the Earth journey to the heavens on this magical midnight.

Story by Huda Almousa

Friend of the Night print showing at Odd One Out.

Stories and Prints II - Reading with Noah

Reading with Noah, 2015

Seven continents, five oceans, one world.

This is how Oceanus begins his story to Noah every night.

Seven continents, five oceans, one world.

But before that, there was Atlantis. A mystical land where rabbits can fly, and fish live in trees. Where birds and dogs dance the night away, and little girls speak to all creatures.

And one day, the people of Atlantis angered Poseidon, God of the sea.

And now there are only seven continents, five oceans, one world.

By Huda Almousa

Call of the Wild runs until 30 November at Odd One Out.

Odd One Out

14 St Francis Street

Wan Chai

Hong Kong

I LOVE YOU HUDA!!

Stories and prints I - Commune

Commune, 2015

Tells the beautiful, tragic, and triumphant tale of Daphne. In an age before evil roamed the Earth, was a beautiful spring nymph named Daphne. Descendent of the River God and Earth Goddess, Daphne's beauty outshone the moon. 
Such was her beauty, that even the Gods wanted her. Attempting to escape a cruel fate, she cried to her mother Gaia to save her. In order to protect her, Gaia turned her daughter into a eucalyptus tree.

From that day, until this very moment, a eucalyptus tree stands alone by a river, deep in the mountains. This tree offers shelter and protection to all girls and innocent creatures who seek it... a safe haven... a commune.

I met an amazing lady Huda in Hong Kong when I went there for Call of the Wild exhibition at Odd One Out.

She kindly wrote stories to accompany some of my prints in the exhibition.

Here is the first one - Thank you so much for your beautiful imagination and stories.

More stories to follow in the next few days.

World of Kyoko Imazu and Call of the Wild

Friends of the Night, 2015

I'm excited to announce that my first solo exhibition at AG Gallery in Brooklyn, NY has opened yesterday on 1 November.
There are my brand new body of works in prints and ceramics along with Call of the Wild at Odd One Out.

2015 has only less than two months left (eek) - it had been such a turbulent but amazing transition for me this year. A lot of things have changed and I'm still trying to shed my old skin but slowly growing and coming out to adapt to a new me with many stellar people around!

The two new solo exhibition at Odd One Out in Hong Kong and AG Gallery in NYC mark my personal and quiet triumphant for 2015! :)
Thank you Phemie, Kylie and Huda at Odd One Out and Natsumi-san at AG Gallery for believing and letting me have an exhibition.

If you are in the areas, I hope you could visit these galleries with super amazing people - Natsumi san in AG Gallery and Phemie in Odd One Out.
Thank you so much for your trusts to have my works at your galleries.

Call of the Wild
Runs until 17 November
Odd One Out
G/F, 14 St. Francis Street
Wan Chai
Hong Kong

World of Kyoko Imazu
Runs until 22 November
AG Gallery
310 Grand Street
Brooklyn
NY 11211
United States

Ceramics at AG Gallery - photo by Natsumi Kitano

Prints at AG Gallery - photo by Natsumi Kitano

Spectre at AG Gallery - photo by Natsumi Kitano

Prints at AG Gallery - photo by Natsumi Kitano

Acorns guys at AG Gallery - photo by Natsumi Kitano

Dim Sum aka CEO of Odd One Out will welcome you.

Odd One Out

Odd One Out.

You can see the etching plates that I made my prints from on display at Odd One Out.

Rabbit offering shown at Odd One Out in Hong Kong

Gathering of all the animals in Odd One Out

All the animals have gathered and Call of the Wild has started at Odd One Out in Hong Kong.

If you look up after you turn into St Francis Street in Wan Chai, the window drawing will welcome you :)

If you are in Hong Kong, please pop in!
Odd One Out is such a lovely space with so many great prints. I love everything they have here.
And there is a great coffee shop next to the gallery too :)

Call of the Wild runs until 17 November and gallery is open everyday from noon to 7:30pm.

Call of the Wild
14 St. Francis Street
Wan Chai
Hong Kong