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August 1, 2020 In Uncategorized, Exhibitions/個展, Media/メディア

■”The Splash Moon” is selected as a finalist for NQ Ceramic Awards 2020
□NQセラミックアワード2020のファイナリストに選ばれました

My work “The Splash Moon” is selected as one of the finalists for the Biennal NQ Ceramic Awards 2020.

The Splash Moon (30 x 33 x 40 cm height), by Keiko Matsui
[Photography: Greg Piper Image Solution]

I am thrilled to announce that The Splash Moon was selected as one of the finalists for the Biennal NQ Ceramic Awards 2020.It is not easy to travel anywhere now due to the COVID19 pandemic, however, I appreciate if you could visit the exhibition when you are around. There are so many beautiful and technically challenging artworks in this prestegious awards.

The Moon represents powerful feminine energy.

It signifies wisdom, intuition, birth, death, and a spiritual connection. I am allured by the moon for the reason that it is an eternally beautiful object.

The Splash Moon is a sculptural vessel combining strong Japanese aesthetics: WABI (subdued, austere beauty) SABI (rustic patina), and YOU-NO-BI (Beauty in utilitarian objects).

It endeavours to express the light (splashes of gold kintsugi pigment) and the darkness (dark bronze glaze running) of the moon while incorporating the shape of a female’s pudendum as a base.

The silver part on the base is not the shadow of the moon above, yet it is enticing the viewer to ponder.

You may feel like standing in the universe after contemplating this artwork by walking in a full circle.

Congratulations to the winners and all the finalists!

If anyone would like to purchase this one-off piece, please contact the gallery staff directly.

クイーンズランド州で由緒あるNorthern Queensland Ceramic Awards 2020 のファイナリストに、私の作品”The Splash Moon”が選ばれました。
写真からは見ることができませんが、女性器を抽象的に示唆したフォルムの土台(真上から見ると)の上に、満月のような光沢のある黒とマットな黒のバックグランドに金・銅のしぶきが飛散しています。
この作品はSculptureにしか見えない作品ですが、実は花器で金色のSplashの下から華を生けることができます。
月は常に私を魅了するオブジェで、今までも月に関する作品を制作してきました。何処にいるかによって、月の形は違いますが、月自体の形は変わっていません。貴方が何処で月を見るかによって、月の形は違って見えるだけで。
光と影。私はこの作品に女性の命と、自分の二面性と矛盾を、表と裏の違う見え方で表現しました。
ギャラリーでは、多くの素晴らしいアーティストの方々の作品と共に、The Splash Moonは、丸いPlinth(作品をのせる台)の上に、ゆったりとした空間の中で展示されています。
もしギャラリーを訪れることが出来たなら、ゆっくりと、作品の周りを一周して鑑賞してみて下さい。貴方を宇宙の世界へ引き込むことができるかもしれません。
不安定な世界で、心も不安になっている方もいらっしゃることでしょう。もし機会があれば、タウンズビルのPerc Tucker Regional Galleryに足を運んで静かな時間を満喫してみて下さい。

最後に、優勝者及び全てのファイナリストの皆さんおめでとうございます！

コロナ禍で大変な時期ですが、お近くにお越しの際はお立ち寄りくださると嬉しいです。又、この一点物の作品をご購入になりたい方は、ギャラリーまで直接お問い合わせくださいます様お願い致します。

Exhibition period
Date: 31 July – 20 September 2020

Address:　Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Corner of Flinders Street and, Denham St, Townsville QLD)

June 3, 2020 In Exhibitions/個展

■A review for”PORCELAIN” Exhibition at Canberra City News
□キャンベラ・シティー・ニュースに’PORCELAIN’レビュー記事掲載

I would like to share the review of Canberra City News (cut out of my artworks only) today. Our exhibition has began at Beaver Galleries in Canberra ACT on 28th May, and runs until 14th June 2020. Fortunately, the gallery door is open to the public viewing now. (maximum 10 people at one time due to COVID19 restriction)

I will be exhibiting my new body of work “Up_in_the_ch+air” sculptural vases. If you would like to purchase my artwork,  see Online Catalogue and contact to Susie & Martin at Beaver Galleries.

本日、キャンベラ・シティー・ニュースに個展の作品のレビューが掲載されました。また、ギャラリーは5月28日より最大10名様まで入る事が可能です。

グループ展は5月28日から6月14日まです。花器であり、オブジェでもある磁器の新作”Up_in_the_ch+air”を展示させて頂きました。ご購入希望の方は、ギャラリーオーナーのSusieさんかMartinさんまでご連絡願います。

Beaver Galleries

Address: 81 Denison Street, Deakin, Canberra, ACT, 2600

Exhibition period: 28th May until 14th Jun 2020

Note: No opening due to COVID19

May 24, 2020 In Uncategorized, Exhibitions/個展, Workshop/ワークショップ

■Peacocks are coming to my studio!
□孔雀が工房に！

I hope everyone is handling new iso-life style well by now. My routine has not changed much (except I have to do homeschooling for my child – which takes lots of my ‘day’time) as I have an access to my studio at Montsalvat in Eltham VIC. One of their famous creature is peacocks. I had 3 female peacocks wanted to come inside of my studio. I wonder what they are interested…although there aren’t any food I keep in my studuo?

自粛生活に皆様もう慣れたころでしょうか？私の日常は、子供のホームスクールを除けば、さほど変わらず、工房にて制作を続けています。今日はモンサルヴァットの有名な孔雀たちが工房を訪れました。食べ物、何も置いていないのに、何に興味があったのかな？

May 24, 2020 In Exhibitions/個展

■”PORCELAIN” Exhibition at Beaver Galleries in Canberra
□キャンベラ・ビーバーギャラリーにてグループ展’PORCELAIN’

My second group exhibition in 2020 will be at Beaver Galleries in Canberra ACT from 28th May until 14th June 2020.

I will be exhibiting my new porcelain “Up_in_the_ch+air” sculptural vases. If you would like to purchase my artwork,  see Online Catalogue and contact to Susie & Martin at Beaver Galleries.

Ar+iS+ S+T+EMEN+
Up_in_the_ch+air is one of my sculpture series I have been working for a while. I first started to make this series when I was at the National Art School period back in 2006. I was feeling very unstable and not knowing where to practice my art as I could not find my studio after graduation. At the same time, I had to move house and looking for a place to settle. I have been back and forth from Japan and Australia many years and searching for the place for my soul then.
I stopped making Up_in_the_ch+air series when I was living in the Central Coast NSW as I was busy raising my newborn while setting up my own studio in my backyard. After 20 years of living in Sydney & the coast, I recently moved house and studio from the Central Coast to Melbourne in December 2019. It was definitely one of the stressful events in my life as we drove back and forth interstate during the great bushfires.
When I finally settled at beautiful and historical studio at Montsalvat in Melbourne in the beginning of 2020, the first artwork I started making was Up_in_the_ch+air. I must admit that I felt uncertain and unstable as I just landed new house and new studio, however, I felt very happy at the same time. It was excitement for the unknown. All my previous house/vase is made from coarse stoneware, however I used Australian whitest porcelain for my new work and applied cobalt glaze.
Up_in_the_ch+air is sculptural house and functional vase. In Japanese culture where I was born and raised, we place a single flower or tree branch in a small vase and appreciate nature in handcrafted ceramics. Although I have been living overseas more than half of my life, Japanese philosophy and aesthetic has strongly stayed within me.
At the same time, studying ceramics in Australia gave me vast and innovative approaches to my practice. Many people say that my work is not 100% Japanese yet a bit of Australian in a whimsical way. I may get those comments from the viewers, because most probably I won’t stick to the tradition of ceramics. I sometime combine with textile, thread, wood, wire, and Kintsugi techniques (the art of Japanese mending for the broken ceramics) into my ceramics.
A chair somehow resembles an individual person to me as it has character and presence. You will find your place or sense of belonging when a chair is placed in an empty room. It also implies home, or gathering as there are always chairs when people get together.
In this uncertainty, my artwork may resonate to many people yet it may give them joy and happiness. Isn’t it amazing having an observatory chair on top of your house? Isn’t it fun putting chairs on top of the roof and drinking a glass of wine together while looking up the moon? Isn’t it heavenly when you always have a place to contemplate under the stars? I believe that dreamy conversation will begin though the artwork.
I am determined to create artwork that touches one’s heart even I feel like standing with one leg like my ceramic chair now.
May 2020, Keiko Matsui

2020年の2番目のグループ展は5月28日から6月14日まで、キャンベラのビーバーギャラリーで行います。

花器であり、オブジェでもある磁器の新作”Up_in_the_ch+air”を展示させて頂きました。ご購入希望の方は、ギャラリーオーナーのSusieさんかMartinさんまでご連絡願います。

Beaver Galleries

Address: 81 Denison Street, Deakin, Canberra, ACT, 2600

Date: 28th May until 14th Jun 2020

February 4, 2020 In Uncategorized, Exhibitions/個展, Media/メディア

■VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE APPEAL FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION
□ヴィクトリア州山火事支援チャリティー展示会

DESTRUCTION, BEAUTY & HOPE @ Long Gallery, Montsalvat.
VIC bushfire fundraising exhibition2
It has been heartbreaking to watch as the devastating bushfire crisis continues, therefore Montsalvat has decided to offer support in the form of a special fundraising exhibition entitled ’Destruction, Beauty & Hope’ to try and raise much needed funds for the appeal.

Montsalvat have invited artists to donate artworks for the exhibition with 100% of the sale of these artworks being donated to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. Montsalvat will also be supporting the exhibition with a special opening in the Long Gallery on 1st February (2-4pm). All of which will go directly to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and 100% of these donated funds will go directly to communities in need.

The exhibition will feature over 30 works from local and prominent artists such as visual artists Lewis Miller and Karen Hopkins, internationally renowned ceramicist Kevin White and award-winning designer jeweler Jeanette Dyke. As well as many of Montsalvat’s studio artists and local artists.

I have donated my kintsugi vase for this fundraising exhibition as a part of Montsalvat’s artists as well as newly arrived resident in VIC. Please pop in the Long Gallery!

年末から続くヴィクトリア州の山火事を支援する為に、モンサルヴァトがチャリティー展示会を行う事になりました。展示会のタイトルは”Destruction, Beauty & Hope”です。

モンサルヴァトは地域のアーティスト達に声をかけたところ、沢山の芸術作品の寄付が集まり、モンサルヴァト敷地内にあるロングギャラリーで１月２９日から３月６日まで作品の展示を行い、売り上げの全てがヴィクトリア州の山火事をサポートする為に寄付されます。

地域で著名な画家のルイス・ミラー氏をはじめ、モンサルヴァトからは、国際的に有名な陶芸家のケビン・ホワイト氏、数々の賞を受賞しているジュエリー・デザイナーのジャネット・ダイケ氏等、約３０人のローカルアーティストが参加しています。

私もモンサルヴァトのアーティストとして、また、新しいヴィクトリア州の住民として、金継ぎの黒の花器を寄付させて頂きました。是非、ロング・ギャラリーにお越し下さい。

Jean-Paul Zilliacus' s sculpture in front of Long Gallery at Monstalvat

Jean-Paul Zilliacus’ s sculpture in front of Long Gallery at Monstalvat

Exhibition period
Date: 29th Jan – 6th Mar 2020

Opening Party: 1st Feb 2020
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Address: 7 Hillcrest Ave, Elltham [Long Gallery at Montsalvat]

Please RSVP to montsalvat@montsalvat.com.au or (03) 9439 7712

For information on the appeal visit www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal

February 1, 2020 In Uncategorized, Exhibitions/個展, Workshop/ワークショップ

■Moving my studio from NSW to VIC
□NSW州からVIC州へ工房をお引越し

Keiko Matsui Studio MontsalvatI never thought that I would move to Melbourne although I always loved Melbourne, one of the most livable cities in the world.

After many sleepless nights and tears from sorting and packing my cluttered studio in Umina Beach NSW, I managed to move my studio to Montsalvat in Eltham VIC, which is approximately 35 min drive from CBD in Melbourne.

Montsalvat is the an oldest artist colony in Australia, established by Justus Jörgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls set amongst richly established gardens on 48,562 m2 (12 acres) of land.

My studio is located right behind the Barn Gallery, opposite the fountain of bronze baby. I am extremely pleased that I became part of this creative artists community and very excited to continue my art practice from 2020.

まさか世界で最も住みやすい街に何度も選ばれたメルボルンに工房を構えるとは、夢にも思っていませんでした。

ユマイナビーチの工房の魔のパッキングの日々を経て、何とかメルボルンに引越しすることができました。工房は、街中から35分程北東にあるエルサムという場所のモンサルヴァトという所です。

モンサルヴァトはオーストラリアで最も古いアーティスト達のコミュニティーで、1934年にジャスタス・ジョーゲンセン氏が設立しました。１２エーカーの広い土地には、多くのヨーロピアン建築と家々、アーティスト達の工房、そして美しく手入れされた庭が広がっています。

私の工房はBarm Galleryの直ぐ後ろの、ブロンズの赤ちゃんの泉の真向かいにあります。この様な歴史ある場所に工房を構えることができたのは、非常に幸運な事でまるで夢の様です。これから、このクリエイティブな環境で制作していけることに心を躍らせています。

fountain of bronze baby

I will be opening my studio to the public once I have settled. If you need to visit me, please contact me to info@keikomatsui.com.au

少し落ち着きましたら、工房を一般公開しようと思っております。もし、ご旅行等時間が限られた方で、どうしても工房に来たいというお客様はEメール（info@keikomatsui.com.au ) にてご連絡ください。

 

■ Keiko Matsui Studio @ Monstalvat ■

Address:7 Hillcrest Ave, Eltham, VIC, 3095

 

Studio visit by appointment only (at the moment)

November 28, 2019 In Exhibitions/個展

■Small Works Group Exhibition at Beaver Galleries in Canberra
□キャンベラ・ビーバーギャラリーにてグループ展’Small Works’

It has been busy year of 2019 as I exhibited Gallery Manora (#India) in Jan, 1000 vases (#Dubai) in March, Endemic Earth (#Tasmania), and solo exhibition at MAY▲SPACE (#Sydney) in October. And my L-A-S-T participation is at Beaver Galleries (#Canberra) in Nov.

I will be exhibiting my new sculptural pieces. Please visit or check out the Online at Beaver Galleries. All of my works are sold. Thank you!

2019年はインドのギャラリーマノラ、デュバイのデザインウィーク展、オーストラリアン・セラミック協会のイベントの一環のタスマニアでのグループ展、そして、シドニーのMay▲Spaceでの個展と、忙しい年となりました。締め括りはキャンベラのビーバーギャラリーのグループ展になります。出品作品すべて完売致しました。有難うございました。

SMALL　WORKSがテーマの展示会では、家シリーズの花器兼スカルプチャーを出店致しました。お時間が許せば、是非お越し下さい。

Beaver Galleries

Address: 81 Denison Street, Deakin, Canberra, ACT, 2600

Date: 27th Nov until 24th Dec 2019

October 9, 2019 In Exhibitions/個展

■Concave: Exhibition at May▲Space
□メイ▲スペースにて3年ぶりの個展’Concave’

Keiko_Matsui_invite_MaySpace_2019

A new body of work will be exhibited at MAY▲SPACE in Waterloo from 16th October until 3rd November 2019.  The exhibition “Concave” is my ongoing pursuit of playing with functionality within sculptural objects. In this new work, I have tried to incorporate concave shape into the functional objects.

I will be at the opening drinks on 19th October. I appreciate to Mr. Jason Khoh (Sip Of Sake) and Ms. Setsuko Yanagisawa (Yuga Floral Design) for supporting my exhibition to be very special.

新作の個展－”Concave”展が、10月16日から11月3日までウオータールーのメイ▲スペースにて行われます。常に探求している用途とオブジェの融合がテーマですが、新作に凹なフォルムを加えることに挑戦しました。

オープニングレセプションではSip Of SakeのJason Khoh氏の善意による日本酒と酒のアイスクリーム(ノン・アルコール）のもてなし、また、優雅フローラルデザインの柳澤勢津子氏が私の花器にお花を生けて下さいます。お時間が許せば、是非お越し下さい。

MAY▲SPACE

Address: 409b George Street Waterloo 2017 (formerly Brenda May Gallery 2 Danks Street)

Date: 16th Oct until 3rd Nov 2019

Opening hours: Tues -Sat (10 – 5pm), Sun (12 – 4pm), Mon (Closed)

Gallery phone:  (02) 9318 1122

Opening drinks with Artist: Saturday 19th Oct, 3-5 pm with Sake tasting generously provided by Sip Of Sake

May 31, 2017 In Exhibitions/個展, Media/メディア

■Sydney Table @ Carridgeworks for VIVID SYDNEY
□シドニー・テーブル＠キャッリッジワークス☆VIVID SYDNEY

[Photo:courtesy of Carriageworks & Zan Wimberley]

[Photo:courtesy of Carriageworks & Zan Wimberley]

I will be collaborating with chef Ben Sears on 17th June for the finale dinner of Sydney Table.

Carriageworks’ exclusive dinner series, Sydney Table, brings together Sydney’s best chefs and creatives for four new unique dining experiences during Vivid Sydney 2017.

Following a sold-out series in 2016, Mike McEnearney curates a lineup featuring Australia’s most respected chefs — together with Creative Director Tony Assness, and Lee Tran Lam as Master of Ceremonies.

 

 

O Tama Carey of Lankan Filling Station, with Tracey Deep of Floral Sculptures: Wed 14 Jun

Clayton Wells of Automata, with Saskia Havekes of Grandiflora: Thu 15 Jun

James Viles of Biota, with artist Craig Waddell: Fri 16 Jun

Ben Sears of Moon Park, with ceramicist Keiko Matsui: Sat 17 Jun

sydney table1

[Photo:courtesy of Carriageworks & Zan Wimberley]

SYDNEY TABLE:
Venue: The Clothing Store, Carriageworks Way, Eveleigh, Sydney
Ticket price $200 + booking fee
This includes canapes on arrival, a 3 course meal with matched wines from Scotchmans Hill, Asahi Super Dry, still and sparking water by VOSS Artesian Water from Norway and an Archie Rose gin cocktail on arrival.

BOOKINGS: carriageworks.com.au/events/sydney-table-2017/

May 7, 2017 In Exhibitions/個展

■Scar Vessels @ SLOT
□SLOTにて個展

SLOT-1st Image-BLOGI am exhibiting my scar vessels and chair sculptures at SLOT window gallery in Alexandria in Sydney now.  Thank you for offering me the space, Tony Twigg the gallery owner and supporting and curating artist – Anie Nheu. I would like to share Anie’s words here.

Keiko Matsui’s installation of Scar Vessels series consists mostly of the porcelain pieces made in 2014 with the more recent chair series.  These pieces are minimal in form.  The variations that create their individuality are mostly in the way the porcelain sheets are folded and joined. 

They enclose the space they inhabit and turned to vessels to contain.  How these porcelain sheets meet dictate the forms they take.  Inspired by the art of Kintsugi, the junctures are left with their ‘mending’ traces.  Having them as an integral part of the identity of these forms, their appearance suggests bodies with healed scars.

The configuration of the familiar shapes found in the homes of the everyday conjures up intimate domestic setting. The use of scale in the ceramic chair with the ‘real’ chair provides a poetic narrative on the relationships amongst the assembled pieces.

This reminds me of Robert Therrien’s use of unusual scale in his re-creation of everyday objects as sculptures to strip the visual cue of their assigned functions. They are instead used as personal symbols to regenerate an emotional space of a childhood memory.  This is echoed in Keiko’s installation.

In this installation beauty is sought in the making, mending and in the arrangement. The creation of beauty in this space is controlled.  It is driven by the process of working with the intrinsic nature of the materials and an ‘innate knowing’ that has passed down through the generation.

Text by Anie Nheu

SLOTギャラリーで個展を開いています。24時間7日オープンですが、ウィンドウ・ギャラリーのため、作品は手にとって頂けませんが、限られた空間に存在するオブジェや器との会話を楽しんで頂けたらと思います。

SLOT window gallery

Address: 38 Botany Road, Alexandria, NSW

Date/Time: 24 h x 7 days, from 7th May until 7th June 2017