Uchiwa Fan Exhibition Update

Wow, what a busy yet satisfying week its been! I feel like I managed to get a lot done without stress myself out in the process, which is really saying something. Perhaps a little bit of personal growth has occurred? We shall have to wait and keep observing..

In other, and arguably much more exciting news, the opening of the Uchiwa Fan charity exhibition for Japan at Espionage Gallery last Thursday was great! We had a massive turnout and managed to sell 25 of the 50 fans on the opening night, including mine (picture one above). That already takes us to a subtotal $1500. I think that is a brilliant achievement for one night! A few more fans have sold since, with 22 fans remaining at this moment in time. The show is only on until this Thursday, the 12th of May so any local and interstate visitors looking to come in are advised to be quick. We want to get the money our Japanese brothers and sisters as soon as possible.

I am honoured and excited to have been invited to take part in this show for this wonderful cause alongside 49 brilliant artists from Australia and New Zealand. It is so lovely to use my art as a direct tool for positive change. x

PS: The images above are just a few snaps by and of me. Official opening photos by Alex Kwong here.

Uchiwa Fan Exhibition for Japan

I have been looking forward to writing this post, as it means the Uchiwa Fan Exhibition is finally here! And I am so excited to have been one of the selected 50 artists to participate in this wonderful show.
Here is the official facebook invite, And the press release with all the information:

Espionage Gallery in collaboration with That Fresh have joined forces to help the people of the Tohoku region of Japan in the wake of the recent Disasters which have befallen Japan. In an effort to raise money in help of support for disaster relief, Espionage Gallery and That Fresh purchased 50 blank Japanese Uchiwa Traditional fans and gave them out to 50 artists from accross Australia and New Zealand.

These 50 fans were painted or decorated by some of Australia’s leading artists in an effort to help raise funds. The fans will be for sale for 1 week at Espionage Gallery for the set price of $60 per fan. 100% of the funds raised from the sale of the fans will be donated directly to the Japanese Red Cross in an effort to fund disaster relief.

The Exhibition will run from the opening night on Thursday the 5th of May at 6pm until the following Thursday and the gallery will be open from 12 noon – 6pm everyday.

some of the artists in the exhibition include:
APESEVEN, KITTY HORTON, AIDA SABIC, BEC WINNEL, KAITLIN BECKETT, JACK DOUGLAS, DRYPNZ, REBECCA MURPHY, ARAMAS, JOSHUA MIELS, JOEL VDK, DAN WITHEY, ARISA YAMAMOTO, MAT HEDE, REM, KATE KOWLAND, DANIEL PURVIS, GENEVIVE DAWSON SCOTT, MADISON BYCROFT, CIARNE BRAES CHAPPELL, MATT WALKER, ELISA MAZZONE, SUSAN CATT, DAYBOT, GREG EDEN, FRUZSI KENEZ, KATE GAGLIARDI, DANIELA CATALANO, STEVE O CONNOR, JOHN WILLANSKI, ASHOWKA CHOWTA, MATT HEALEY, NISH CASH, SALLY JO COOK, STACIE REEVES, HALEY ROBERTS, ELYSE WILLIAMS, RACHEL STRZELECKI, SEBASTION BLAZELY, HANNAH PEDLEY, STACY ALEXANDROU, OLIVIA ANDREULA, DONOVAN CHRISTIE, CHRISTINE SMITH + MORE

helping japan

(artist Mike Perry's amazing work)

I've been trying to find a way to contribute to the relief effort to help Japan. After some googling and blog trawling, I saw that the lovely people at Poppytalk created a list of artists donating proceeds from their shop to this charitable cause. Among these artist is Mike Perry, who is one of my favourite contemporary artists working in the screen-printing medium today! He has very kindly agreed to give 100% of his sales to go towards the effort, on all sales before the end of the month. I was so excited to buy his book pulled, a catalog of screen printed works featuring international artists such as Andy Mueller, Rinzen, and Andy Smith, but it was sold out. Instead I think I'll settle for this.

There is also an auction happening right now ( March 24-27) by Handmade For Japan, who are putting up contemporary ceramics by some amazing international artists. I am seriously considering making a teapot purchase.

Oh and I just purchased a raffle ticket!
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