“Immanent Landscape”
Ai Sasaki, Atsunobu Katagiri, Nobuaki Onishi, Hisaharu Motoda, Kiron Robinson, Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker and Utako Shindo
20 Aug → 4 Sept 2010

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‘Immanent Landscape’, 2010, group exhibition curated by Utako Shindo, exhibition view: West Space, Anthony Street, 2010. Image courtesy of West Space.

Immanent Landscape is a project by eight artists from across Australia and Japan as they moved across the countries and engaged with each other over the two-year period.

Participating artists Ai Sasaki, Atsunobu Katagiri, Nobuaki Onishi, Hisaharu Motoda, Kiron Robinson, Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker, and Utako Shindo.

Their disciplines varied from photography, drawing, printmaking, installation, or IKEBANA. However, their works commonly reflected and embodied environments of both the external and the internal. Therefore, their art practices encompassed contexts such as urban space, historical or social environment, mythological, or spiritual world. With these diverse works, as a whole, the group exhibition intended to express a ‘landscape’ where various points of view intersect.

The participating artists also actively engaged with art communities through curation, direction, or education. Immanent Landscape ran multiple projects such as artist-in-residence, research trips, workshops, or talk sessions. Through these activities, the aim was for artists to hold active dialogues, for art communities in both countries to develop relationships, and to approach broader audiences.

Immanent Landscape proposed to be a place where they suggested and shared a new ‘landscape’ that spoke to everyone with different cultural backgrounds and a ‘landscape’ that was longed for and embedded in their communal existence.

The project was funded by Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne, and supported by West Space for 2010.

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Atsunobu Katagiri participated in Imminent Landscape.

Kiron Robinson graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in the Philippines, Japan and Canada.

Hamish Carr

Jeremy Bakker is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist working across sculpture and drawing attempting to find poetic connections between small, material gestures and the impersonal processes that shape the world at large.

Utako Shindo