Our Exhibitor - Wa 2020

Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival is pleased to welcome Ms Yuki Matsuoka as our first international exhibitor for the Wa 2020. Ms Matsuoka is a member of Sesshu School Ikebana from Tokyo, Japan.
www.instagram.com/yukibou33/

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Our Exhibitor: Sandy Marker

Our Exhibitor: Sandy Marker

Melbourne Ikebana Festival is delighted to welcome Ms Sandy Marker, a Sogetsu Sanyo teacher from NSW. Ms Marker is the fifth recipient of the Norman and Mary Sparnon scholarship and the NSW Director of The Australian Sogetsu Teacher's Association NSW Inc for two and a half years. She also has interests in ceramic and jewellery design which in 2008 she was awarded 1st place Graduate Metal XI International in Adelaide.

You can see more of Ms Marker's works at
http://www.sandymarker.com
https://www.facebook.com/sandra.marker.90
on Instagram as @sandra.marker

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Our Exhibitor: Shoso Shimbo

Shoso Shimbo PhD is an artist with over 30 years experience in Ikebana. He was selected as one of “Australia’s top floral designers” (Belle) and has won multiple awards including the Gold Award at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. He is the Arnold Bloch Leiber Prize winner at the Yering Station Sculpture 2017. His recent commissions include a public work of art for the Archibald Award Exhibition 2015 and the Wye River Project 2016.

Shoso is a directer of International Society of Ikebana Studies, Ikebana Gallery Award and he teaches Japanese Aesthetics at RMIT Short Courses. He is the Secretary-General of Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2019. He presents Ikebana performance with the Grigoryan Brothers at Melbourne Recital Centre as part of Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2019.

Shoso has an MA in Japanese Studies, a Master of Fine Art and PhD in Education.

< Solo Exhibition>
2013 Distilling Nature: Master of Fine Art Project, MADA Project Gallery, Monash University

<Ikebana Exhibition>
2018 Wa: Ikebana Exhibition (since 2015)
2014 Ikebana Exhibition - Shoso Shimbo Group (since 2009)

<Curated Group Exhibition (Selected)>
2018 Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition
2018 Lorne Sculpture
2017 Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition
2016 Lorne Sculpture
2014 Lorne Sculpture
2013 Twenty Five Sculptures at the World Trade Centre, The WTC Gallery
2013 Deakin University Small Contemporary Sculpture Award Finalists Exhibition
2012 Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery (since 2010)
2012 Glen Eira Artists' Exhibition, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
2012 Lorne Sculpture

<Commissioned Works / Special Displays (Selected)>
2018 Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA)
2016 Wye River Project, Lorne Sculpture
2015 Public Artwork for Archibald Award Exhibition, Ballarat Art Gallery
2014 Light On / Light Off, Upper West Side, Melbourne
2013 Christmas installation for the City of Ballarat
2012 New Wave Art Festival, National Gallery of Victoria
2005 Melbourne Fashion Festival, Mural Hall & Shop windows, Myer, City

<Award (Selected)>
2019 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Silver Award in Shop Window Display Competition
2017 The Arnold Bloch Leiber Prize at the Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition
2006 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (Gold Award)

<Publication (Selected)>
2016 Environmental Art and Ikebana, International Journal of Ikebana Studies (IJIS), 4, pp. 27-38.
2015 Flowers in Contemporary Art, International Journal of Ikebana Studies (IJIS), 3, pp.11-19.
2015 Ikebana to Contemporary Art: Rosalie Gascoigne, The IAFOR Academic Review, Vol.1, Issue 2, pp.16-20. 　　
2014 Ikebana in English: Bibliographical Essay, International Journal of Ikebana Studies (IJIS), 2, pp.99-107.
2013 Hiroshi Teshigahara in the Expanded Field of Ikebana, The International Journal of Ikebana Studies, 1, p.31-52.

<Conference Papers (Selected)>                                                               
2018 Creativity & Education: Environmental Art as a Vehicle of Message. Central de Studii European, Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union, April 17, Iasi, Romania.
2018 Environmental Art as Public Art. Creating Utopia Conference 2018 Sponsored by Deakin University, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, 22-25th March, Qdos Arts Lorne.
2018 Japanese Aesthetics and Environmental Art. The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, The International Academic Forum. March 30 - April 1, Kobe Japan.
2017 Transition of Environmental Art: In Search of the Strategies for Sustainability. The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, The International Academic Forum. March 30 - April 2, Kobe, Japan.
2015 Power in the Discourse of Art: Ephemeral Arts as Counter-monuments and Beyond, The Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities. The International Academic Forum. April 2-4, Osaka, Japan.
2013 Ikebana to Contemporary Art: Cross Cultural Transformation in Rosalie Gascoigne, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. The International Academic Forum. May 24-26, Osaka, Japan.

Web: www.shoso.com.au

日本語ブログ：https://ikebana-shoso.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ikebanaaustralia/

Instagram: shoso_shimbo

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Our Exhibitor: Shoan Lo

Shoan is an ikebana artist and certified Sogetsu ikebana teacher who is currently working towards the Teacher's Diploma Second grade. She conducts regular workshops and weekly classes teaching Sogetsu Ikebana style.

With a background in architecture, she has ikebana training under the guidance of Dr Shoso Shimbo since 2005. Being conscious about promoting ikebana, she assisted Dr Shoso Shimbo in founding the "Ikebana Gallery" and continue to be the Associate Director of its Ikebana Award Committee. 

In the last ten years she has partaken in many public exhibitions and competitions, which includes the annual Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Her large-sized weekly display can been seen at the North Balwyn Baptist Church.

Further information about Shoan’s classes and workshops can be found at http://www.shoanlo.net
You can catch her most updated news on Instagram @shoanlo or on Facebook @Loikebana

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Our Exhibitor: Shokai Ikebana

Pulcheria (Shokai) started teaching as a sogetsu ikebana artist in 2019.  Her ‘Early Summer’ arrangement received a Gold Award from the Ikebana Gallery in 2018.  Shokai is on Instagram and Facebook @shokai.ikebana .

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Our Exhibitor: Soyo Kagawa

Melbourne Ikebana Festival is delighted to welcome Ms Soyo Kagawa, Professor in Ichiyo School of Ikebana as a special exhibitor from Tokyo. Ms Kagawa will also join our Ikebana Demonstration as a demonstrator.   

Soyo Kagawa　加川聡葉

Soyo is from Tokyo and has a licensed to teach Ikebana in Ichiyo School.

She became a disciple of the Ichiyo School, and she studied under headmaster - IEMOTO.

Her experience of Ikebana is over 20 years.

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Our Exhibitor: Aileen Duke

Aileen Duke (Shoto) is a Sogetsu Ikebana artist and teacher, with a background in art education, information technologies and business governance.

In 2018, she won the international online Ikebana Gallery Award in both Overall and People's Choice categories. In 2016, her essay 'Ikebana: Respecting the Past, Expressing the Future' was published in the International Journal of Ikebana Studies. She has exhibited at the Wa exhibition several times. She is a secretary of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Victoria Branch.

"The creative, meditative and mindful aspects of Japanese flower arrangement provide a fantastic counter-balance to our busy lives," says Shoto, "Ikebana brings beauty into our homes, hearts and minds and enhances our appreciation of nature.

Shoto teaches Ikebana on the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, accepting casual and certificate students. Under her business name, Eclipse Ikebana, she makes arrangements for a number of local businesses, and runs workshops at a range of venues. During 2019, she has teamed up with SeaCrest yoga to present Yoga and Ikebana workshops in Red Hill.

Find Shoto online at ww.ikebana.net.au, @eclipse.ikebana, @shoto.ikebana, or email eclipse@ikebana.net.au for information or bookings.

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Our Exhibitor: Akemi Suzuki

We will introduce some of our exhibitors in Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival. Crick "exhibitor" label to see them all. 

The 2019 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, the Royal Exhibition Building

The 2018 Sogetsu Victorian Branch Exhibition in Melbourne, the Hawthorn Town Hall

鈴木朱実

いけばな講師、アーティスト
日本とオーストラリア二国にわたり展覧会に出品
いけばな歴14年。日々いけばなを探究中

＜賞＞
第5回フェイスブック 草月みんなのいけばな展 銀の月賞受賞
＜展覧会＞

2018年 草月ビクトリア支部展 出品
2019年 メルボルンインターナショナルフラワーガーデンショー 出品
2019年 8月 和 Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival 出品予定

＜メッセージ＞
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Instagram amy_suzuki_fuller https://www.instagram.com/amy_suzuki_fuller
Facebook ikebanaAkemi
HP https://ikebanaakemi.wixsite.com/mysite

Akemi Suzuki is a Japanese ikebana artist and teacher. Her work has been exhibited extensively in both Australia and Japan. She has been a practitioner of sogetsu ikebana for over 14 years. She uses a variety of techniques to bring the essence of ikebana to each piece of work. 

She has exhibited extensively including the fifth Facebook Everyone’s Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition (she got silver moon award) and has exhibited five times in the Melbourne International Flower and garden show. She will also exhibit in the Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival in August of this year.

For those interested in seeing some of her work, her Facebook and instagram accounts are below. Also if you are interested in studying Ikebana she teaches weekly classes in Melbourne so feel free to contact her on Instagram or Facebook.

Instagram amy_suzuki_fuller https://www.instagram.com/amy_suzuki_fuller
Facebook ikebanaAkemi
HP https://ikebanaakemi.wixsite.com/mysite

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