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!!

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

Call of the wild

Call of the Wild is my solo exhibition of the latest prints and brand new ceramics shown for the first time at Odd One Out in  Hong Kong.

There will be lots of animals in prints and ceramics!

Exhibition runs from 24 October to 17 November
Opening / private viewing is Friday 23 October 7 - 9pm

If you are in Hong Kong I'd love to see you!!

Odd One Out
G/F, 14 St. Francis Street
Wan Chai
Hong Kong
+852 2529 3955
Open 7 days a week: 12noon - 7:30pm

Ghost catcher

Kokeshi girls

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

CORE

I'm taking part in an exhibition CORE in Waiheke Island in New Zealand from 17 July - 17 August.

It's a printmaking exhibition of Australian printmakers curated by Katherine Kennedy.

Artists include: Annika Romeyn, Ben Rak, Kyoko Imazu, Linda Swinfield, Olivia Willson,Tanya Crothers, Jet James, Michael Kempson, Rew Hanks, Rafael Butron, Dale Harding, Vernan Ah Kee, Elisabeth Cummings, Chris O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa, and Katherine Kennedy

I'm showing two of my latest prints with this theme CORE.

CORE

Friday 17 July - Monday 17 August

Waiheke Community Art Gallery

2 Korona Road, Waiheke Island

Auckland, New Zealand

info@waihekeartgallery.org.nz

Reading with Noah, 2015

Jasper II, 2015

Exhibition - 2 x 2 and Zodiac in New Zealand

I'm excited to have an exhibition 2 x 2 and Zodiac at Solander Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand from 25 March to 18 April.

This is an exhibition that shows the new suite of collaborative works with Damon Kowarsky as well as our individual printmaking practices.

If you are in town, please join us to celebrate this exhibition!
Opening
Saturday 28 March, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Solander Gallery
218c Willis St, Te Aro
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
+644 920 0913
info@solandergallery.co.nz

Exhibition continues until 18 April 2015

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

APW Print Fair

Australian Print Workshop is hosting an inaugural APW Print Fair on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 October, 10am to 5pm.

It's a chance to see all day print demonstrations and meet, engage with contemporary Melbourne based printmakers and wander through APW's print studio.
Artists include Elizabeth Barnett, Lauren Carter, Jazmina Cininas, Marisa Corral, Louise Donovan, Jonathan Guthmann, Kate Hudson, Kyoko Imazu, Deborah Klein, Nina Magee, Ellie Malin, Stephanie Rampton, Tom Civil and Georgia Thorpe.

We all look forward to meeting you there!

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

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.

The Fold

I'm part of a group exhibition The Fold opening tonight!
It's by 7 Australian printmakers including

Andrew Weatherill
Andrew Keall
Kyoko Imazu
Yoshe Gillespie
Yuho Imura
Betty Musgrove
Leonie Connellan

Curated by Leonie Connellan

The Fold

22 March - 5 April

Opening 22 March, 5 - 8pm

D11 at Docklands

Shop 3, 427 Docklands Drive

Docklands
VIC Australia

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

Editions

I'm very happy to announce Editions 2014 - annual selected print exhibition curated by Tacit Contemporary Art celebrating the diversity of printmaking.

Editions will represent 45+ printmakers from Melbourne, regional Victoria and New South Wales, featuring:

Leonie Auhl, T J Bateson, Louise Donovan, Rosemary Eagle, Kevin Foley, David Frazer, Zoe Geyer, Janet Goldman, Kate Gorringe-Smith, Pete Gurrie, Rosemary Harris-Arnott, Jodi Heffernan, Jayne Higgins, Deanna Hitti, Jackie Hocking, Kate Hudson, Anita Iacovella, Kyoko Imazu, Chris Ingham, Freya Jobbins, Sheridan Jones, Hyun Ju Kim, Gillian Kline, Damon Kowarsky, Kir Larwill, Anne Lillecrapp, Larissa MacFarlane, Ellie Malin, Marion Manifold, Sarah Martin, Olivia Mazzone, Janice McBride, Rachael Ness, James Pasakos, Jenny Peterson, Jaime Pritchard, Ben Rak, Stephanie Jane Rampton, Bronwyn Rees, Gilbert Schultz, Lisa Sewards, Georgia Thorpe, Sophie Westerman & Joel Wolter.

Exhibition runs from 5 to 22 February 2014

Opening Wednesday 5 February, 6.30-8pm

Tacit Contemporary Art

312 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Vic 3067
T: 0423 323 188
keith@tacitart.com.au

Wednesday – Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday – Sunday 11am–5pm

Happy Halloween!

Spectre, 2013

Happy Halloween!!

I've been making tiny etchings for exhibition in Adelaide, South Australia and Hong Kong in November.

Gathering, 2013

I started working on small scale for the exhibition in Hong Kong at first as suggested by the gallery manager Phemie.
I decided to take on board with the idea as I often thought about doing it and also I always admired Rembrandt's tiny incredible etchings.

Small plates are so much fun to work with.
No big commitment or stress, it is easy to make much larger edition too.
Spectre and Gathering are both edition of 50.
I wouldn't have been able to print like that if I was working on usual larger plates.

Yatagarasu, 2013

I sense this is going to be a long series!

The Bird Room

My fellow printmaker Bridget Farmer and I are having an exhibition called The Bird Room opening on Saturday 5 October at Faulkner Gallery in Castlemaine, Victoria.

I'm very pleased that we can finally have a show together after admiring her work so long.

When we first met, Bridget was studying her MFA and I was doing my last year of BFA at RMIT University in 2007, but we really started getting to know each other at Australian Print Workshop in 2008.

She was working there after being awarded her Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Scholarship and I was trying to keep my print practice going after graduating from uni.

Since then we've talking about our love for birds and animals and finally we get to have a show together!

Finch V by Bridget Farmer

Cufulin by Kyoko Imazu

The Bird Room

3 October - 24 November

Opening: Saturday 5 October, 2 - 4pm

Ian Clark is also having an exhibition "The Absence of Drama" of his painting, linocuts and drawings and Lee Shelden is showing her drawings called "Drawn Threads" in the other rooms at Faulkner Gallery.

Faulkner Gallery

35 Templeton Street

Castlemaine

VIC 3450

Australia

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Words for missing type - exhibition

Damon Kowarsky and I are excited to be part of the exhibition 足りない活字のためのことば - Words for missing type in Japan from 1 October.

Using limited types found at a printer in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, 12 poets were asked to create poems. 6 printmakers made images to accompany some of these poems.

Exhibition runs from 1 October - 2 November.
Bakuro-cho Art + Eat
202 Agata-Takezawa Bldg. 1-2-11 Higashi-Kanda
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

There will be a reading session and talk by the poets and printmakers on 12 October at the gallery.
Information is on the website but currently only in Japanese so if you need more information, please contact me.
I can get in touch with the curator.

「足りない活字のためのことば」展 が馬喰町で１０月２日から１１月２日まで行われます。
三陸・釜石の印刷工場で、東日本大震災を生きのびたわずかな活字を使って１２人の詩人によって作られた詩と６人のアーティストによる挿絵の展示会です。
私たちは菅啓次郎さんの素敵な詩に絵をつけさせて頂きました。
１２日には朗読会も企画されているので是非どうぞ！

Catching light, 2013

Images of the Along the River

Edison, 2013

Here are some images from the Along the River series I made with Damon Kowarsky.

Please go to our website for all 14 prints in the suite.

I'm missing warm and sunny Mildura in cold Melbourne!

Contact

Night march

Rachel

Under the sea

Along the river,  zine

We've also made zines to accompany with the prints!
It's available at Sticky Institute in Melbourne.

Blackbird, part of the zine