FEBUARY

Japanese Woodblock Prints

Collection From Tokyo

18th - 20th century

Gallery view
Ando Hiroshige 60 Odd Provinces - Izumo

APRIL

Andrea Barker

Comtemporary Spoons together with Traditional Eastern Spoons

Opening: Thursday 10 April, 2008
Exhibition till 3 May, 2008

Ritual Objects Porcelain 2007

Spoons are one of the most overlooked objects when one thinks of tableware made from Ceramic. They are one of the most spulptural form ofthe humble everyday objects we use.
My spoons express sensuality and fenininity, blurring the boudnaries of sculptural form and functional object.
My collections of objecs are designed for contemplation and the art of meditation and quietude...absence of noise, silence, stillness and simplcity.
The Japanese call it Shibui. It is a notion of ideal beuty, simplicity and humility.
My work attempts to express the validity of emptiness as an element of composition. Clay by its very nature is a heavy, earthy, grounded substance. I like challenging the material, using it in unconventional ways, defying gravity, giving it a visual lightness and making it float.
But most of all my work is about memory. Past cultures, lost languages, disused rituals, people now gone. Ceramics links us to the ancient world in a way few other materials can.
Theis exhibition validates the contemporary use of an ancient material and gives it a place alognside history, allowing a contemporary ceramic artist to gain freedom in the world of symbols.

MAY

Tang Hon Yin

"Water Margins - Silk Road"

Opening Thursday 8 May, 2008 - 6:30pm
By Jason Yeap, Member of the Board of Trustees, National Art Gallery, Melbourne

Silk Road #16 Acrylic on Canvas 142 × 142 cm 2008	Water Margin #126 Acrylic on Canvas 142 × 142 cm 2007

"...I guess the most challlenging aspect of painting is the idea.
How do I create an image that no one has seen before?
How do I paint something that I myself have not seen before?
How do I create an image that says different things to different people?
That is what I try to achieve in my paintings..."

JULY/AUGUST

Ichigai Kanamori

Zen Buddhist philosopher
Japanese Brush Ink Artist

"ZEN or ZENGA" and the Art of Rather Silly Questions"
Figures of 'Kazan', Bodhidarma', 'Hotei' and 'Haiku'

Opening Thursday 21 July, 2008 - 6:30pm

By Mr. Iwata Shinya
Consul for Cultural Affairs and Japan Information Service, Consulate-General of Japan

Song of the Flute Ink and Brush on Paper
Cat Ink and Brush on Paper

OCTOBER

EXHIBITION OF SOUTH-EAST ASIAN
BUDDHAS AND CERAMICS

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Burma

selected Buddhas in wood, silver and marble,
16th century - 19th century

Northern Thai ceramics
12th century – 15th century

Pagan 18th Century, Burma wood 95 × 37cm

NOVEMBER

Tracy Luff

... KNOTS ...

"A knot is literally a junction between two threads
or a complication in a single thread.
As a metaphor for our memory,
a knot may be viewed as an intersection or juncture of concepts, ideas, or thoughts.
It can represent anything in our mind that we are able to remember
as well as the relationships between memories.
These works explore the fragile tensions between
my heritage, experience, and memories.
My experiences are full of light and shade;
they have helped me grow and made me strong.
They are my life."

"Random" Fluted cardboard 120 × 80 × 12.5 (H×W×D) cm

February

Japanese Woodblock Prints

Private collection from Tokyo

Including Hiroshige, Hokusai, Toyokuni III, Yoshitoshi, Kunichika, Kuniyoshi, Saito etc.

Toyonobu "Flute Payer on an Ox" C1750's	Kyosai "Tiger" 1860

April

Exhibitions of Chinese paintings

From a private collection in Melbourne

"Bamboo" Xie Liang Hu 50 × 98 cm	"Landscape" Liu Shuang Yin 14 × 9 cm