Printmakers and artists Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky team together in Collaborate, showing at the Japan Foundation Gallery from 23 February to 21 March. Collaborate is a part of the Japan Foundation’s facetnate! series for 2012, a support program for emerging artists.

The pair have worked together since 2010 based on a simple system – Damon gives Kyoko his drawings, which Kyoko then ‘vandalises’ with her own interpretations. The results are a diary of visual communications of subtlety, variety and humour exploring themes such as nature, science, art and technology.

Collaborate will feature 24 prints, including new works made in response to their September Japan trip, along with previous works that have exhibited at Port Jackson Press Melbourne and Aesop Aoyama.

Kyoko and Damon first met at Australian Print Workshop in 2008 and are currently artists in residence at Trinity Grammar School Kew where they print on a regular basis.

Collaborate's catalogue essay written by David Hagger of blackartprojects.

 

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23 February – 21 March 2012
Japan Foundation Gallery
Level 1, Chifley Plaza, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney
Monday – Friday, 11am – 4pm
Free admission
www.jpf.org.au

About the Artists:

Kyoko Imazu holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking, a Diploma of Visual Arts, and a Certificate in Foundation Studies Art in Design and Communication, all from RMIT in Melbourne. She has exhibited her work throughout the Asia-Pacific region including Bus Projects, Port Jackson Press, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and the Tokyo National Art Centre.
www.kyokoimazu.com

Damon Kowarsky studied printmaking at the Victoria College of the Arts (VCA) and Glasgow School of Art, and Advanced Figure Drawing at RMIT. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours, in Printmaking from VCA. Since graduating in 2000 he has exhibited his prints in Australia and abroad and worked as a scientific, courtroom, and archaeological illustrator. Kowarsky has received numerous awards, grants and residencies and has also taught drawing and printmaking in Lahore and Karachi.
www.damon.tk