Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond – Group Exhibition Curated by Rona Green

Image above: Rona Green Petal 2023 hand coloured linocut edition 57 38 x 28 cm
Photography by Tim Gresham

Printmaker Rona Green has curated a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat,
Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond, inviting 56 emerging and established artists from across Victoria to submit a work that responds to their relationship to place, country and home.

Australian Galleries artists Sue Anderson, David Frazer, Rona Green, Kyoko Imazu, Glenn Morgan, Heather Shimmen and Deborah Williams all have works in the exhibition.

Exhibition Launch
Saturday 16 December 2023

Free entry. All welcome!
Exhibition current until 4 February 2024

Glenn Morgan Cats 2023 linocut edition 57 26 x 28 cm
Photography by Tim Gresham

Kyoko Imazu and Richard Dove – Discussion and Book Launch at Willy Lit Fest

The Promise by Richard Dove, illustrated by Kyoko Imazu

Little White Bird Press invites you to the launch of the book, The Promise, by Richard Dove, Illustrated by artist Kyoko Imazu, designed by book designer Hannah Janzen and published by Little White Bird Press.

Book Launch:

Sunday 19 June 4.15 – 5.30 pm

Williamstown Town Hall

104 Ferguson Street Williamstownas part of Willy Lit Fest.

The Promise is an original allegory about the enduring power of a promise and the wisdom of living a simple life, close to the earth.

Introduction to Project Publishing:

The author Richard Dove and artist Kyoko Imazu will discuss new ways of getting work into print at this session Introduction to Project Publishing on

Friday 18 June 11.30 am – 12:30 pm at Willy Lit Fest.

Full $20, Concession $18, Early $15

To purchase tickets to this session, click here

Kyoko Imazu – Featured in Artist Profile

Kyoko Imazu Three horned rhinoceros beetle (blue) 2022 stoneware 10.5 x 9 x 4.5 cm

We are delighted to share Artist Profile’s feature on Kyoko Imazu’s current solo exhibition, Hiding Spots.

Revelling at once in both pointed personality and dreamlike ambivalence, Kyoko Imazu’s media- and genre-hopping show, Hiding Spots, elides between the sensed and the imagined.

Often, characters from Imazu’s childhood in Japan are set within Australian or otherwise ambivalent landscapes: the artist’s work here is to modulate between times, places, and expressive registers with a grounding in remembered or sensed material. There is a certain kind of magic attending to this work. Elements of “personality” flicker and shift through gauzy dreamscapes, as solid figures – often drawn at once from both the artist’s memories, and her present surroundings, within the same image – are sifted out of the intermediate realm of the visually non-specific. This is the magic of Imazu’s special attentiveness to the teeming biological world around her – but also to its imaginative and affective valences. In many of Imazu’s images, we find often-overlooked members of our surrounds. We see weeds, bugs, and pebbles that are so frequently shrunk back from the centre of or preoccupied and anthropocentric gaze.

Just as the settings of Imazu’s prints might be described as an “in-between,” so too might we consider her approach to medium as modular. Hiding Spots presents work across printmaking, papercut, and ceramics, with characters and moods carrying across between these distinct modes of making. Many of the ceramics in the show extrapolate upon characters from the prints: horned beetle figures with human-like faces, cats, and multi-species characters simply designated as “strange animals.” There is, in these ceramics, a frequent emphasis on companionship, or even friendship, between species, as human figures are shown embracing, or “leaning upon” other creatures, both literally and symbolically. Is in, indeed, as if these creatures (including human creatures) look each other in the eye, whichever world they may be found within.

To read the full article, visit the Artist Profile website.