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

Athenaeum Library

Photograph by Harvard Wang

I had one of the most amazing time during my residency at the Athenaeum Library last week.
I met so many wonderful people from here, interstates as well as overseas throughout the week, as we had Rare Book Week, AIDS Conference, the Nite Art and Open House Melbourne all coincided in one week!

Photograph by Harvard Wang

Thank you so so much everyone at the Athenaeum Library, especially Sue, Tom, James, Clare and so many lovely volunteer people.

I felt so respected and supported throughout the week and it was such a privilege to be able to work in a place where I could see the weight of the history.

It was so fortunate to have taken part in such a great program in the exciting week!

Photograph by Harvard Wang

Special thank you to one of my oldest friends and my favourite photographer in Melbourne, Harvard Wang who took lots of beautiful photos of the library and my work.

Photograph by Harvard Wang

Life Along the River

Suite of etchings I made with Damon Kowarsky called Along the River is going to Hong Kong for an exhibition titled Life Along the River from 6 to 30 March at Odd One Out and Aesop Hong Kong.

Life Along the River is a collaborative suite of 14 etchings and an accompanying zine. The prints and zine are based on Damon's drawings of the riverside architecture of Kyoto, Japan with artistic interventions by Kyoko.
The drawings were made during our research trip to Japan in 2011 and 2013.

There will be a permanent installation at Aesop Head office in Hong Kong too.
Permanent installation and selected prints from the suite will be at Aesop Head office in Hong Kong from 4 March.
Please join us see the installation with refreshments on 6 March, 6:30 - 8:30pm.

The complete suite of Along the River can be viewed at Odd One Out from 6 - 30 March.
You are all welcome to come to the opening party on 7 March, 7:00 - 9:00pm.

Life Along the River
6 - 30 March
Aesop head office, Hong Kong
22 Upper Station Street
Sheung Wan
Hong Kong

Odd One Out
G/F 34 Sau Wa Fong
Wan Chai
Hong Kong

Adore - opening

Thank you so much for coming to the exhibition opening at Bird's Gallery earlier this week!

It was amazing to see many new as well as familiar faces.

Thank you so much also to the gallery owner and artist Brigita La made such a lovely space and turn this opening into a great event!

Another special thank you to Jazmina Cininas, artist and my ex-lecturer at RMIT University, who made a sweet and warm speech to open my exhibition. 

She is in fact my first teacher who showed me the inky world of printmaking in TAFE back in 2004. 

I then followed her to do my Bachelor of Fine Art in printmaking where she moved from TAFE.

It was fun to listen to her when she read my work assessment written by her as well as her first impression on me.

Thank you so much to everyone! It's become such an unforgettable event for me.

Trish Roan

Trish Roan is a Canberra based artist who primarily works with glass and found objects to create installation and kinetic sculpture.
She studied at Australian National University and since graduating she's been working in her studio at Anca and Canberra Glassworks.

She's been very busy this year as she had her solo as well as group exhibitions recently.
These are the images from her recent solo show.

hum, Trish Roan

To me, she is an artist in the sense of scientists or amateur scholars in the Victorian era who observed and recorded everyday phenomena in the world they saw.

Her work makes me notice things that are usually invisible to our eyes or hard to see if you don't pay attention, such as the earth moving, position of the sun in different seasons etc.
Her work doesn't yell, rather it sits in the corner of my brain and helps me realise how things, even seemingly worthless things in everyday life, can be worth spending the time to savour.

even the most solid of things, Trish Roan

even the most solid of things (detail), Trish Roan

gramophone, Trish Roan

800,000,000 heartbeats, Trish Roan

800,000,000 heartbeats (detail), Trish Roan

Looking forward to seeing you when you come back to Melbourne next time Trish!

Aesop Aoyama store celebration party

Thank you for coming to our celebration party at Aesop Aoyama last night!
We are fortunate to have so many friends who came to the opening.


Left to right:
Ryotaro Yao, Kyoko, Damon, Justin Cullum, lovely Aesop staff


Fumi and Sonomi from Melbourne :)
Aki (on the left) at Aesop Aoyama store who made this event possible.



Left to Right: Cain Lee, Kensuke Izawa and Tsutomu Suzuki




Thank you so much for making time to visit our party - it meant so much to us!
Thank you so much Dennis Paphitis, Hiroko Shiratori, Aki Kasuga, Ayako Hayashihara, Midori Sakaguchi, Aki Hiraoka,, Wei-Hsuan Hsieh, Yukari Fujii and all extremely sweet and generous retail staff.
This project wouldn't have been possible without you all!!

Aesop Aoyama store part II

Second part of our installation is now complete!
14 of our collaborative prints are now hung on the wall.


Wonderful staff at Aoyama store - thank you so much for being so generous to us!




The print exhibition is until 10 October but the paste-up is a permanent installation, hope you can pop in!

Opening party is tonight at 6pm :)

Aesop Aoyama store part I installed

It's been 2 days since we arrived in Tokyo.
Today we've completed the permanent installation of Aesop Aoyama store, Tokyo.
We are going to hang our collaborative print works on the wall tomorrow.
Opening party is tomorrow Friday 9 September, 6 - 8pm.


Meeting room


Damon at work



Front view - left: store & right: meeting room



Us at work:)

We are very fortunate to have a great and generous staff team at Aesop Aoyama store.
Thank you Hiroko Shiratori, Aki Kasuga, Aki Hiraoka, Midori Sakaguchi, Ayako Hayashihara and all retail staff of Aesop!!

Collaboration at Aesop Aoyama Store

Collaborative works and installation by Damon Kowarsky and myself will be on display both temporarily and permanently on the wall from Friday 9 September 2011 at Aesop in Aoyama, Tokyo
We will be creating permanent installation and also having our selected print exhibition.
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Please join us for drinks to celebrate this occasion.
When: Friday 9 September from 6pm to 8pm
Where: Aesop Aoyama store, 4-8-2 Jingumae Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
イソップ 青山店 〒150-0001 東京都渋谷区神宮前4-8-2
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