CONTEMPORARY PAINTING

KEIKO KOBAYASHI

Origami, Collage and Calligraphy

Keiko, who arrived in Autralia in 2007, started to learn pen calligraphy when she was just six, brush calligraphy at nine, and continued until she was 20. She uses the poems of famous writers who inspire her origami collages.

2006-2007 Studied Certs III and IV in Spoken and Written English at AMES Education Flagstaff, Melbourne
1995 Gained a bachelor degree in Social Welfare, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Qualified as a Junior High and High School Teacher

Exhibitions
20 Feb - 15 Mar 2009 Women's Salon 2009: Story of Hope at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick
30 May - 27 June 2009 The Sounds of INk: Japanese calligrphy and painting exhibition at Level 5 Australia on Collins
9 May 2009 Accepted for the Box Hill Arts Center (BHAC) art competition "HOME"
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