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

I want more rabbits!

I want more rabbits! original book

 I want more rabbits! is a little book about multiplying rabbits I made while I was artist in residence at Australian Tapestry Workshop.

It's a concertina book with original drawings of watercolour and ink.

I want more rabbits! original book

I then decided that I also want to make a digital print version of this because I wanted to multiply these multiplying rabbits.

So I scanned and got my friend and font king Cameron to help me coordinate the books with additional cool English and Japanese fonts. 

I want more rabbits! digital print zine

I want more rabbits! digital print zine

I want more rabbits! digital print zine

They are available through me or Sticky Institute or Port Jackson Press in Melbourne at the moment!
I hope they will multiply in different locations soon.

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

Effector

My friend Cameron has a collection of guitars as well as guitar effect pedals.

I've never used one before but apparently every single pedal works differently - some make subtle variations to the sounds, while others transform the sound dramatically.

Earlier this year Cameron suggested that we make a zine based on these pedals.

I didn't know anything about them but I like the idea of drawing such fetishised objects with diverse and cool design.

As I was in Japan at the time, he started drawing the pedals from his collection and I started drawing pedals borrowed from my brother's friend.

Big Muff Deluxe by Cameron White

Russian Big Muff by Kyoko

As we worked tother, we realised I called them 'effectors', as that's what we call them in Japanese.

Thus the name of the zine!

Front cover

Cameron also has many, many resistors of different colours.

I think his suggestion to use them as staples worked very nicely.

Back

Commune - gallery, cafe and shop in Tokyo - stocks this zine in the shop.

It offers lots of great handmade jewellery as well as zines and exhibition space.

Commune

5-28-3-1F, Daita, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0033
〒155-0033 東京都世田谷区代田5-28-3-1F

http://www.ccommunee.com/

contact.commune@gmail.com

Opening hours:

Weekdays 14:00 - 20:00
Sat, Sun & public holiday 12:00 - 20:00
CLOSE : Thursday

If you are in Tokyo, it's worth a visit!!
Details of the zine is on my website too.

Mammals from Melbourne Museum

Sugar glider, 2012

Mammals from Melbourne Museum is a small exhibition I'm having in February at Japan Information and Cultural Centre in Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne.

This exhibition will feature six prints and texts about each animal as part of my ongoing drawing project at museums.

This is the first exhibition to present my animal specimen prints from Melbourne Museum as a series.

Stoat, 2012

This project started in 2011 with Damon Kowarsky who suggested going to Melbourne Museum to draw chameleons in order to create a zine called "Talking of a chameleon".

Wayne Longmore, collection manager at Ornithology and Mammalogy section, assisted this project by allowing us to have a close look at animals of our choice.

I'm in Japan at the moment and did more drawings at National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. I'm looking forward to making prints of these new drawings too.

1 - 28 February 2013

Consulate General of Japan, Melbourne

Japan Information and Cultural Centre
Level 8, Marland House

570 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Mon to Fri 9:00 to 1:00, 2:00 to 5:00

Closed on weekends and public holidays

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Talking of a chameleon exhibition

I'm currently having a collaborative exhibition "Talking of a chameleon" with Damon Kowarsky until 30 May at Perimeter books.

Chameleons have long been known for their ability to change colour and transform.
In this suite of ten etchings and a zine we try to take that transformation one step further with a series of strange and wonderful animals.

"Talking of a chameleon", he said: "Its master put it down on a tartan rug and it died of overexertion."
Jean Cocteau, quoted by Liane de Pougy (1869-1950)

Thank you so much Dan and Justine at Perimeter books for making this exhibition possible. Perimeter books is such a beautiful special space with variety of local and international books.
Owners Dan and Justine also own Erm Books, small press artist publisher.
These books, again, are collectable gems!!

Exhibition runs from 5 to 30 May 2012

Perimeter books
748 High Street
Thornbury, VIC

Wednesday 12 to 6pm
Thursday 12 to 6pm
Friday 12 to 7pm
Saturday 10am to 5pm