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

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

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

The Great Wave and Friends of the Night

The Great Wave

Recent prints The Great Wave and Friends of the Night
They are available on my online shop and galleries - Port Jackson Press, Printmaker's Gallery, Lauriston Press and will be part of my solo exhibition at Odd One Out in Hong Kong in October.

Friends of the Night

Curious arrangements

I'm having an exhibition of all my works created during the Dowd Foundation Scholarship at Australian Print Workshop last year with Nina Magee who received APW Collie Print Trust Scholarship for Emerging Victorian Printmakers.

In the 3 months I was at APW, I made 9 etchings of various sizes and 2 lithographs printed by Simon White, senior printer of APW.

I would LOVE to see you if you are in town!

Curious arrangements

Opening Saturday 7 March, 2 - 4pm

Exhibition continues until Friday 24 April 2015

Australian Print Workshop

210 Gertrude Street

Fitzroy

VIC 3065

03 9419 5466

auspw@bigpond.com 

Here are some of the works to be exhibited.

Storm, 2014

Fish Party, 2014

Scruffy, 2014

Editions 2015

I'm very excited to be part of the annual printmaking exhibition at Tacit Contemporary Art, my first exhibition of 2015.

Featuring:

Elizabeth Banfield, T J Bateson, Jazmina Cininas, Tom Civil, Louise Donovan, Kevin Foley, Peter Garnick, Zoe Geyer, Silvi Glattauer, Janet Goldman, Pete Gurrie, Carolyn Hawkins, Jodi Heffernan, Ying Huang, Kate Hudson, Kyoko Imazu, Sheridan Jones, Hyun Ju Kim, Deborah Klein, Damon Kowarsky, Kir Larwill, Anita Laurence, Marion Manifold, Soula Mantalvanos, Scarlett Mellows, Rachael Ness, Sharron Okines, James Pasakos, Cat Poljski, Stephanie Jane Rampton, Trudy Rice, Lisa Sewards, Georgina Whish-Wilson and Joel Wolter

Editions 2015

11 February - 1 March

Opening Wednesday 11 February, 6:30 - 8:00pm

Tacit Contemporary Art

312 Johnston Street, Abbotsford

VIC 3067
0423 323 188

keith@tacitart.com.au

HIBIRDS

I'm excited to be part of a group exhibition HIBIRDS at Bird's Gallery showcasing 5 artists exploring the visual imagery of the birds.

Artists includes: Ingrid Dusselberg, Josh McCrimmon, Catherine Gill, Bridget Farmer, Kyoko Imazu.

HIBIRDS

15 - 29 November

Opening 15 November 2:00 - 4:00pm

Bird's Gallery 

236 HIgh Street

Kew

I hope to see you there!

Adelie II, 2014

Japanese hare

Japanese hare, 2014

Latest print from my time at Australian Print Workshop.
It is a Japanese hare I drew from Tokyo Nature and Science Museum.

Original sketch of Japanese hare

More hare prints to come!!

Crested pigeon II

Crested pigeon II, 2014

Another crested pigeon print as part of Bimblebox 153 Birds Project.
I love this bird so much!!

The Flyway Print Exchange

By Brisbane based artist Amanda O'Sullivan. 2013, silkscreen

I took part in the Flyway Print Exchange Project last year organised by a Melbourne printmaker Kate Gorringe-Smith.

It's an exhibition of original prints created by artists who live along the East Asian-Australasian 

Flyway, the path flown by migratory birds from Australia and New Zealand through Asia to their breeding grounds above the Arctic Circle.

Twenty artists, from nine of the twenty-two Flyway countries, created prints inspired by the idea of the Flyway. One print from each edition will then be posted, unprotected, along the Flyway and back, echoing the birds’ journey, adding the impression of migration and distance to the works and referencing the weathering of the migrating birds’ plumage.

The exhibition features two sets of prints: one pristine and framed, the other one worn and weathered, which has been posted without protection along the flyway from New Zealand to Alaska and back to echo the birds’ journeys.

By Alaskan artist Ed Mighell, 2013, etching

The Flyway Print Project

9 – 28 September

Opening Thursday 11 Thursday 6 – 8pm

No Vacancy Gallery

The Atrium, Federation Square

​Tuesday - Saturday: 11.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 12.00pm - 5.00pm

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Melbourne Water

Zodiac print project

Damon Kowarsky and I have been working on a new project called Zodiac.
It's a suite of 12 etchings based on Damon's figurative drawings with my animals inspired by the deity statues that bear the characteristics of the twelve zodiac animals in Sanjusangendo in Kyoto.

Damon thought about this project while we were in the Art Vault last year for our Along the River project.

We started the production in late June this year and now we are back in the Art Vault in Mildura for printing the editions.

We've done 3 editions of Rat, Ox and Tiger so far in 3 days.

Tomorrow is a RABBIT day! :)

Night Train

There are some stories that you read as a child and enjoyed but when you re-read as a grown-up, you find it's a whole new experience.
I think Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa is a bit like that. I really liked it as a child but now I feel there is something else profoundly sad and warm that's been staying with me after I re-read the book.

I made a print called Night Train. 
It's not based on the book but I kept thinking about it while I was sketching the image.
I hope I could make a series of prints to reinterpret this story one day.

Here the girl's not on a Galactic train but her cat can carry her through the night!

Nico and Miki

Nico and Miki, 2014

Nico and Miki is my latest print based on my childhood friend Miki and her rabbit Nico.
I enjoyed looking at him hopping around the house with his cute round bottom!

It's currently being exhibited at 13 Melbourne Printmakers exhibition at Rathdowne Galleries.

Crested pigeon

Crested pigeon, 2014

If someone asks me what my favorite Australian bird is, I'll say Crested pigeon.
It is my lucky day if I see one.

These sweet pigeons are native to Australia and they can be seen throughout most of the mainland, though not as common as the usual pigeons where I live.

I often made drawings of them but it was my first time to actually make a print of one!
They are so interesting and beautiful to draw. I would love to make more prints of them.

Detail from Crested pigeon, 2014

Mildura, 2013

They remind me of the time when my mum visited Melbourne.
We were so excited whenever we could spot them.

I wish I could see them more often around my place in Melbourne.