| URBAN SITES |
| Launching the series, Hisaharu Motoda and Kiron Robinson focus their attention on ‘urban sites’ and explore the issue of 'erosion' and 'disturbance' to familiar city-scapes. |
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Hisaharu Motoda works with lithograph and creates intricate images of destroyed cityscapes in its process of regeneration.
His works present a beauty in impermanence and imperfection.
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Kiron Robinson considers landscape as an artificial production by humans.
He explores this through various media such as photography, installation and text.
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| TIME |
| Ai Sasaki and Hamish Carr each create complex, large-scale works exploring the idea of landscape drawing connections across time. This forum will look at the evolution of mediums (from old to new, analogue to digital) in the context of contemporary art. |
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Ai Sasaki is a painter and drawer.
She visualises a world recalled from memories and conveys this with intricate wall drawings using royal icing sugar.
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Hamish Carr meticulously and neurotically renders mediated landscape images sourced through art history or contemporary visual culture.
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| NATURE |
| A desire to communicate the energy and power of nature lies at the heart of Atsunobu Katagiri's contemporary ikebana (Japanese floral art) and Utako Shindo's site-specific installations. Both artists will discuss how nature influences their work. |
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Atsunobu Katagiri is a master in ikebana.
He produces works that merge contemporary and traditional aesthetics. He also directs Osaka-based art space, Monde Books.
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Utako Shindo was born in Tokyo and is currently based in Melbourne.
Her site-specific installation works involve mixed media to express bodily sensations that moves between memory, anticipation, time and space.
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| THE EVERYDAY |
| Nobuaki Onishi and Jeremy Bakker translate our daily experiences of ‘the everyday’ into drawing, installation, 3D art, and printmaking. |
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Nobuaki Onishi is a print maker who expands on the idea of 'print'.
He creates life-like resin representations of familiar objects, questioning the relationship between the original and the copied.
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Jeremy Bakker works across sculpture and drawing.
He attempts to find poetic connections between small material gestures and the impersonal processes that shape the world at large.
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Kathryn Hunyor is Creative Program Manager at Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, where she produces exhibition, public program and educational projects. Outside Object, Kathryn is a freelance arts consultant and has been engaged to speak on a range of Japanese and Australian arts projects, including: Taisho Chic (2008) and Tezuka: the marvel of manga (2007) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. |
