(Sculpture/Fibre)
PO Box 271 Fairfield 3078 VIC
Phone&Fax: (03) 9480-5940 Email: mokubo@wxc.com.au
Website: www.expandingminimum.com.au/naomi/
 
1998 ~ Lecturer in Visual Arts, School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne
1996 Masters of Fine Arts - Sculpture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1988 Masters in Fine Arts - Fibre, Kyoto City University of Arts
1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
1963 Born in Yokohama
     
1998 - 2000 2000 July 5th In Our Hands, Nagoya Trade & Industry Centre, Nagoya, Japan participate as an invited artist June Chinese Whispers, The Study Gallery, UK Mar. 2on. Mini-Textile International Contemporary Art Exhibition M.X.Space, Barcelona, Spain
1999
October
Diaphanous, Nokia International Arts Festival '99, Singapore
The Australian Tactile Art Prize Exhibition, Customs House, Sydney
February Diaphanous, Span Gallery, Melbourne
1998 September 13th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Touring interstates in 1999
September Streaming, Mapping, Accumulating, Installation at Arts Victoria June Miniature Fibre Works , Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra
February Tidal Recollection (Solo Exhibition), Craft Victoria
1997 January Drawing Exhibition, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1996 August Textile Miniature Works : Contemporary Art of Japan Craft Victoria, (touring Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Launceston)
June 1st Flax&Linen Biennial in Upper-Normandy Normandy, France
1995 December To Read An Accumulated Recollection (Solo Exhibition), RMIT Gallery in Storey Hall
November Australian Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
1994
October 11th
Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Touring interstates
1994
August 4th
International Textile Fair, Kyoto Cultural Museum , Japan ( First Prize - Award Grand Prix)
1993 June Simile, Craft Victoria
1992 September A.C.A.F. 3 -3rd Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building
April Joint Exhibition, Gryphone Gallery (University of Melbourne)
1991 January To Find a Ground (Solo Exhibition), Gallery Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
1989 September 3cm above the Ground (Solo Exhibition), Gallery Gallery January Selected Artists of New Generation, Gallery Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan)
1988 June Exhibition of Selected Works in Kyoto, Kyoto City Museum (Japan)
1987 May Untitled (Solo Exhibition), Gallery Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan)
     
1994 First Prize - Award Grand Prix 4th International Textile Fair, Kyoto, Japan
1993 Subsidy for Young Artists, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
     
National Gallery of Victoria, Art Bank, Museum of Victoria, Nishijin Textile Industrial Association (Kyoto)
     
2000 In Our Hands - exhibition catalogue
1999 The Straits Times, Singapore - 5 November, Exhibition Review
Diaphanous - exhibition catalogues, Kerstin Rann
1998 Exhibition Review of "Tidal Recollection", Object NO2, Juliet Peers
Tidal Recollection - exhibition catalogue, Naomi Cass
1996 Sensyoku Alpha - July, “Fibre Art Trend" Kiyoji Tsuji
1995 A Study to Find a Direction for Fibre Art through Ota Naomi's Work, Seian University of Art Bulletin Vol 2, Associate Professor , Tetuo Fujimoto
1994 11th Tamworth Fibre - Textile Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue, David Salter
4th International Textile Fair in Kyoto, Exhibition Catalogue, Kiyoji Tsuji
Nisijin Graph - Vol. 449/Oct., Teruko Sugiyama
Asahi Newspaper - 20th Aug., Nihonkeizai Newspaper - 16th Aug
Asian Art News - Vol. 4 July/Aug., Grant Hannan
1993 Simile, Exhibition Catalogue, Kevin Murray
Craft Art International - No. 27, p113~115, Shirley Silverstein
1991 Senshoku Alpha - Oct., Exhibition Review
Kyoto Newspaper - Jan., Hiroshi Otagaki
 

Beginnings are born in memory... My intention is to explore, improve and appreciate our inherited archetypal nature of susceptibility toward creativity that we carry deep in our souls. In this sense the work would not only be trans-cultural, crossing regional and cultural boundaries, but also, hopefully, timeless.
 
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Streaming, Mapping, Accumulating A path to an Island Island to Island - Seeking a Path