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Kate Rohde (2008), Japan

Since graduating in 2001, Kate Rohde has held several solo exhibitions and been involved in numerous group shows. Her work is held in public and private collections across Australia. Rohde's sculptures and installations are comprised of a wide range of craft and hardware material, including resins, fake fur, expanding foam and rice paper, loosely exploring themes surrounding humanity's relationship to nature. While undertaking her residency at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, she gathered research material to inspire and influence a new body of work, particularly drawing on the use of kitsch in Japanese pop-culture.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

James Lynch (2007), Japan

James Lynch works across various media including drawing, installation, painting and animation and is a founding member of the collaborative group Damp. He has created a series of artworks and animations, based on a collection of people's dreams in which he has appeared, which mediate our often conflicted and ambivalent relationships with the other. Lynch developed an exhibition The Drunken Soldier and Other Melodies that was exhibited at his host organisation Tokyo Wondersite. He also participated in LIVE - the Tokyo Digital Art Festival.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

Denis Beaubois (2006), Japan

Mauritius-born Denis Beaubois’ practice includes performance, video and photography. He has performed with groups such as Post Arrivalist, and Gravity Feed. Beaubois was artist-in-residence at Artist Unlimited (Germany) and The University of New South Wales. His residency at Youkobo Artspace Japan resulted in the consolidation, creation and exhibition of three new works from the Terminal Vision project. Another major exhibition is planned in Japan in 2008 along with numerous other opportunities for future engagement with Japanese curators and artists.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts NSW.

Ben Morieson (2006), Japan

Ben Morieson has exhibited and created on-site works and installations that seek to engage uninitiated audiences. By using popular marketing tools, Morieson's work invites the viewer to question the integrity of the very medium through which he seeks to communicate. He has exhibited in galleries throughout Australia and in Germany, Switzerland, England and China. In Japan, he created a site-specific work involving a giant canvas and remote controlled cars with the assistance of local school children at the Matsudai Snow Agrarian centre as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial.

Funded by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

Suzanne Knight (2002), Japan

Printmaker Suzanne Knight extends her practice to drawing and textiles. Knight has worked for a number of years as a lithographic editions printer in Canberra and Darwin, working with Aboriginal, non-Indigenous and Asian artists and completed her Masters degree at the Canberra School of Art in 1996. Her work has been exhibited in Poland, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia. During her residency at Nagasawa Art Park Knight explored techniques of Japanese woodblock printing with master craftspeople. Since returning to Australia she has incorporated her experiences through exploring Japanese advertising and digital media/screen printing as well as continuing practice into Japanese woodblock techniques in a new body of work.

Michael Schlitz (2001), Japan

Michael Schlitz has a Master of Arts from the Tasmanian School of Art, and has also taught and studied in the ACT and Queensland. He has exhibited as a printmaker since 1991 and is well known for his whimsical etchings. During his 2001 residency in Japan Schlitz undertook an intensive study of traditional woodblock printing with master printmakers on Awaji Island at Nagawawa Art Park. The artist also established several valuable connections with local artists and residency participants and continued to work collaboratively with artist Hiroke Satake on a book of woodblock imagery and text.

Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Nagasawa Art Park Committee.