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

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

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! :)

Along the river in Melbourne

Damon and I are very excited to present Along the River in Sofitel, Melbourne in July.
After travelling from Mildura, Tokyo and Hong Kong, we are finally able to exhibit the suite in Melbourne!

8 July - 5 October 2014

Opening Wednesday 9 July, 5:30 - 7:30pm
To be officially opened by The Hon. Heidi Victoria MP, Minister for the Arts, Consumer Affairs and Women's Affairs.

Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
Atrium Gallery, Level 35
25 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000
RSVP essential to Michael Baldwin on 03 9653 7738

'Along the River' was produced at The Art Vault Mildura with the support of the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Japan Foundation Sydney

     

Words for Missing types in Kamaishi

Damon and I were involved in an exhibition 足りない活字のためのことば (Tarinai Katsuji no tame no Kotoba) 'Words for missing types' in October last year in Tokyo.

Now this exhibition has travelled to Kamaishi, Iwate, where the types were discovered in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

Exhibition shows poems by 12 poets using limited types found at a printer in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and works by 6 printmakers responding to some of these poems.

Words for Missing types
4 May - 1 June

Minna no ie Cadatte
1-3-2 Tadakoecho, Kamaishi city, Iwate, 026-0021
10am - 6pm
Closed on Mondays

足りない活字のためのことば」展
会　期：2014年5月4日(日)～6月1日(日)
　　　　月曜休館　※5月5日(月)は開館
時　間：10：00～18：00
　　　　最終日は16：00まで
会　場：釜石商店街「みんなの家 かだって」
　　　　〒026-0021 岩手県釜石市只越町1-3-2

Along the River Kyoto

My collaborative suite of prints Along the River with Damon Kowarsky will be exhibited at Aesop Kawaramachi in Kyoto, Japan.

Melbourne based writer Jon Williams produced a story to accompany our images.
Noriko Tabei, freelance writer also based in Melbourne, provided a Japanese translation.

We are handling out the booklet / zine of our images with the story at the exhibition too.

A special thank-you to my lovely Irwin and McLaren bookbinders for letting me bind the zines!

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

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

Kangaroo

Kangaroo, 2013

I've always liked kangaroo's unique fascinating body.

Features such as the powerful hind legs for hopping and a strong tail that balances its body, as well as the pouch that carries the baby roo have been very familiar to me even as a child in Japan.

There is even a courier company that uses the image of roo as their logo in my hometown too, which I kind of feel strange now that I've lived in Australia for so long.

I made this drawing when I visited the Melbourne Museum mammal room with Damon Kowarsky last year.

Original drawing

Damon also made a print of a similar looking animal from Melbourne Museum collection.
They do have lots of roo / wallaby specimen there!

Damon's print 'Thylogale'

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

Exhibition - Along the river

We have one more image to print tomorrow for this exhibition Along the River at the Art Vault in Mildura.
This exhibition presents a suite of 14 etchings Damon and I made during our Artist in Residence at the Art Vault.

This also means that our residency is going to end in one week.
It's sad to think I have to leave but I think I have to leave that for the next post.
There is just so much to write about this wonderful studio, I don't know where to start.

Here is a photo of all proofs - hopefully I can put proper images of the prints here very soon.

Warren and Daphne

Warren

Here are two new collaborative prints with Damon Kowarsky.
I'm never going to get bored of rabbits and the space!

Daphne

Along the river

Past few weeks I've been preparing for a collaborative print project named Along the river with Damon Kowarsky that will take place in The Art Vault in Mildura from 25 June.

We are trying to create a suite of 14 colour etchings based on Damon's drawings of riverside architecture in Kyoto with my drawing to intervene with them, as well as an accompanying zine during the artist in residence program.

This project is supported by Arts Victoria as part of their Arts Development project grant.
Damon's drawings were made in April while we were travelling in Japan as part of Japan Foundation's support program.

I'll be posting all the updates and progress of this project on Damon and Kyoko Collaborative Project news. Please keep an eye out.

Here are some of the plates we've drawn. 

'Falling rabbits' plate

'Snapper festival' plate

'Wombat family' plate

5 Press on!

I'm very pleased to be part of a group print exhibition 5 Press on! at PG Printmaker Gallery.

This show brings together 5 printmakers in Melbourne - Georgina Ross, Damon Kowarsky, Chris Ingham, Hyun Ju Kim and myself who use etching as the main medium.

Exhibition runs from 1 to 30 March 2013

Please join us on Friday 1 March from 6:00 to 8:00pm to celebrate this event with us!

PG Printmaker Gallery
227 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
printgal@printgal.com.au

Gallery hours:
Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 5:00pm

Palette works

Surge, 2013

I made a watercolour drawing on palette called Surge made for Exquisite Palette Exhibition 2013 at St Luke Artist Colourmen.
I've decided to have rabbits running from the hole on the palette.
Too many rabbits are never enough.

detail, Surge

Here are other really exquisite palettes made by my friends.

Damon Kowarsky, 2013

Damon Kowarsky's palette is a etching and aquatint print of a view of Darb al Ahmar district in Cairo.

It feels as though I'm looking at an old photograph in a dark room...

Hyun Ju Kim, 2013

Hyun Ju Kim made a beautifully detailed mixed media drawing. It may be hard to see in the photo but all tones are made by layering different colours of fine lines. As always I can't keep my eyes off her drawing of wonderful world of colourful plants, monsters and birds.

St Luke's Exquisite Palette exhibition 2013 opens from 10 April - 8 May 2013

St Luke Artist Colourmen
32 Smith Street
Collingwood
VIC 3066
info@stluke.com
03 9486 9992

Editions

Editions is a group print show I'm fortunate to be part of at Tacit Contemporary Art in Abbotsford curated by Stephanie Jane Rampton.

Exhibition features 19 artists, T J Bateson, Paul Compton, Louise Einfeld, Maria Galanis, Zoe Geyer, Jodi Heffernan, Anita Iacovella, Kyoko Imazu, Chris Ingham, Freya Jobbins, Sheridan Jones, Damon Kowarsky, Larissa MacFarlane, Ellie Malin, Greg Neville, Issy Oddie, Kirsten Perry, Stephanie Jane Rampton, Lisa Sewards.

Another exciting news is that this exhibition takes place in Tacit Contemporary Art's new premise.
This show marks not only the first show for 2013, but also their first exhibition in the new massive location with five gallery spaces and some 100 linear metres of exhibition walls.

Also I get to have another exhibition with my friend Damon Kowarsky!

12 February to 3 March 2013

Opening Party

Tuesday 12 February 6:00 to 8:00pm

Exhibition to be opened by Marco Luccio

Tacit Contemporary Art

312 Johnston Street

Abbotsford

Victoria 3067

0423 323188
keith@tacitart.com.au

Gallery hours
Wednesday to Friday 11 to 6pm
Saturday and Sunday 11 to 5pm


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Meet in the middle

Lemur and squid, 2012

Damon Kowarsky and I are excited to announce our first exhibition of 2013, Meet in the middle.

This is our collaborative exhibition of limited edition prints this year, generously supported by Sofitel Melbourne On Collins, Global Art Projects and Joshua McClelland Print Room.

This exhibition features selection of works since 2010 to the most recent coloured prints.

1 February to 1 April 2013

Opening Party Tuesday 19 February, 6:00 - 8:00pm
RSVP essential by 15 February to Michael Baldwin on 03 9653 7738 or email Michael.Baldwin@sofitel.com

Atrium Gallery
Level 35 Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
25 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000

Invitation
Images for the show

We look forward to meeting you at the Opening Party!

David and Elena, 2012