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CURRENT EXHIBITION

Some of you will have enjoyed seeing a small selection Yori’s paintings in our first exhibition. Now we get a chance to showcase her work! Yori trained as a printmaker at the National Art School, and brings that sensibility along with her immersion in the traditions of Japanese Shintoism and Zen Buddhism to her painting practice.

These abstract landscapes are Yori’s response to the traditions of her upbringing in Japan and her wonder at experiencing the Australian bush when she immigrated here in the early 2000s. With their thickly applied paint contrasting with delicate and calligraphic pencil markings and washes of colour, these paintings are evocative and sensual.

Join Yori for drinks in the Gallery on Sunday June 5, from 4 to 6 pm.

GALLERY HOURS: 11AM TO 5PM, THURSDAY TO SUNDAY OR BY APPOINTMENT

PLEASE NOTE: TILIQUA TILIQUA WILL BE CLOSED FROM MAY 28 TO JUNE 4

WORKS FROM THE EXHIBITION

Windows of Other Awakenings IX

$1900, 90cm diameter, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Windows of Other Awakenings VI

$1950, 90cm diameter, oil and polychromos pigments on woodpanel

Windows of Other Awakenings VII

$1950, 90cm diameter, oil and polychromos pigments on woodpanel

Into the Chasm

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Any Natural Thing

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

In Ignorant Goodwill

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Dew-Wet Lawns

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

That Frail Mortality May See

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

What See for Envy, in Me

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Light Expectations

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Spring Whispers

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Faded Relic

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

From Cloud to Tumbling Cloud

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

You Will Proceed in Pleasure and in Pride

$350, 23.7x17cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

When the Tide of Rhyme’s in Flow

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Come Rain or Come Shine

$350, 23.7x17cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Beyond the Surface Appearance

$350, 23.7x17cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Travelling in Blue Water

$350, 23.7x17cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Finding It’s Own Level

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Running Deep

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Crossing the Terrain

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Thy Shadow, and the Darkness of Thy Steps

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Among the Speechless Crowd

$350, 23.7x17cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

An Image of Mysterious Wisdom Won by Toil

$350, 20x20cm, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

Windows of Other Awakening II

$2500, 120cm diameter, oil and polychromos pigments on wood panel

About the paintings

My work follows the Shinto Animist tradition of using elements from the landscape to represent larger nature spirits. My painting represents evoked inner spiritual landscapes, where I can explore my ideologies of nature to interpret my voice and language in abstract form. It expresses emotive sensibilities in various different contexts and aspects. I use permanent polychromos pencils to give compelling effects on the compositions. And you can enjoy getting lost and found in between the thick layered colours while the white paint invokes a sacred sense of nature representing nothingness by its artificiality.

I push the sense of the canvas being a two-dimensional space with the use of paint layering emphasised by the contrasting intricate pencil etchings. As is typical in abstract art, to define the work’s actual aspects and characteristic features can be inextricable, obscure and vague. Still, I intend to investigate the deep essence within my work as precisely as possible.

About the artist

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Yori immigrated to Australia in 2000. She finished her MFA at the National Art School (NAS) in 2013, majoring in printmaking.

Her work interprets Japan’s native nature aesthetic, which colours her perspective with its placement of nature at the centre of its philosophy. Specifically, she is influenced by Shintoism and Zen Buddhism, the latter teaching the beauty of imperfection in nature which is an important part of her aesthetic. Her current projects are based on the integration of her aforementioned Japanese aesthetic and philosophy, with her experience of Western culture.

Yori’s landscapes immerse us in her experience of nature which is imbued with memory, colour, emotion, and the ineffable spiritual presence, influenced by her Japanese heritage. This last element is particularly felt in her landscape paintings, suffuse with a soft, white light; or in the flush of pink of the sky at dawn. She also creates works using printmaking techniques and hopes to extend her practice to other media.

Japanese traditional colour themes are a prominent element in her work, as is the universal semiotic breadth of colour: its cultural and religious connotations; how it conjures feelings of nostalgia; and also its ability to stimulate other senses (synaesthesia). Her investigation has also extended to the history of colour and the manner in which it came to be ordered and assigned to signify wealth and social status, as in former centuries when an augmented status was ascribed to pigments such as purple, because of its scarcity. Talismanic power has also been attributed to colours such as red which in Japan is still used today ceremonially to ward off malevolent spirits and disease.

In Yori’s works, she presents nature’s harmony through particular colour combinations inspired by the seasons, as well as being derived from Western colour compositional theories. With that said, she interprets these combinations within the context of the laws of Japanese colour symbolism.In Floating Series, for instance, the white, negative space surrounding the coloured, organic shapes is expressive of ‘the sacred’ according to Japanese tradition.

The abstract forms are also derived from her Japanese influence as she meditates before beginning her work, contemplating nature. This is a process based on Zen practices and began in her childhood at the instruction of her Zen calligraphy teacher. In Buddha’s doctrine, Zen meditation is central to the search for a definition of life and emphasises the importance nature. Similar to the effect of the Zen Koans, Yori’s works affect calm and clarity of mind upon her viewer, analogous to a meditative state.

– Zoe Harrington, freelance writer / former editor of Sculpture + Enemies

TILIQUA TILIQUA, Tiliqua Studio & Tiliqua Press acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land and waters upon which these premises stands.
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