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

Kyoko Imazu & Damon Kowarsky: a retrospective

Printmaker Gallery is having a retrospective exhibition of some of my collaborative works with Damon Kowarsky from 2010 to 2015 from 16 June.

There is a collaborative drawing prize as part of the exhibition!
Printmaker Gallery invites you to create a collaborative drawing with a friend to win a $150 voucher!

Opening / private viewing is Thursday 16 June - all welcome!
I hope to see you if you are around.

Kyoko Imazu & Damon Kowarsky: a retrospective
16 June - 7 July
Opening / private viewing Thursday 16 June 6 - 8pm
Printmaker Gallery
227 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy VIC Australia

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

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.

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

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

ZODIAC in Sydney

Damon Kowarsky and I are very excited to present our new suite of prints ZODIAC at Sofitel Sydney Wentworh.

Zodiac series is inspired by the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac at Sanjusangendo in Kyoto when we visited Japan together in 2011 and 2013 with a Facetnate! Artist's Travel Grant from Japan Foundation, Sydney.

This exhibition is officially opened by Me Masato Takaoka, Consul General of Japan in Sydney.

Opening 

Wednesday 25 March

6:30-7:30pm

at The Library

Sofitel Sydney Wentworth

Exhibition will continue until 26 June 2015.

If you are able to attend please RSVP to Emma Wilson by 15 March.

Here are some of the prints from the series!

Rooster

Tiger

Snake

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