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太田奈緒美 |
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Naomi Ota - www.naomiota.com
Naomi Ota is an installation artist whose work uses hand made
fibre paper, other fibrous and natural/cultural materials. Her works ranges in scale from
small detailed pieces to large spatially interactive designs. Naomi often
draws on images and memories from the natural world and from the earth;
places connected to emotional memory, places faraway in the imagination
and calling on her memories of growing-up in Japan.
Naomi's works have been exhibited in various exhibitions in Australia,
Singapore, Belgium, France, UK and Japan. Her works are included in public
collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Victoria, Art Bank,
The Royal Blind Association in NSW and Kyoto Nishijin Textile Industrial
Association.
In the last decade, Naomi has extended her practice to include work with
performance makers where she contributes interactive design and spatial
elements. Her process is intuitive and collaborative. She is not a set
designer, although her objects delineate theatrical space and convey meaning.
Instead, she works alongside directors, performers and musicians in developing
a performance and draws on elements of the immediate environments using
materials such tree branches and rocks alongside her fibrous sculptural
constructions. The result is often to lead the viewer to a more interactive
sense of the performance space and an understanding of how expressive
qualities of performance are multidimensional.
Working on a range of national and international projects spanning butoh,
contemporary dance, intercultural theatre, and experiential arts projects,
Naomi's recent collaborators include: Tony Yap Company
(tyc), Theatre Nottle (South Korea), Surya Kencana (Indonesia), Tim Humphrey and Madeline
Flynn, Genta Iwamura, Soo Yuen You, Peter Eckersall, Chi Vu, Yumi Umiumare, Lech Mackiewicz and Deborah Leiser-Moor.
Among those projects, tyc's Rasa Sayang (2010) was nominated for an Australian
Dance Award and her installation for Yumi Umiumare's EnTrance (2009) was
nominated for a Green Room Award. |
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| Qualifications |
| 2012 |
PhD
- Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1996 |
M.A.Fine
Art by Research - Sculpture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1988 |
M.A.Fine
Arts - Textiles, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1986 |
B.A.Fine
Arts - Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan |
| Grant
/ Award |
| 2022 -2024 |
Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan
through Kinosaki International Arts Centre Community Program |
| 2020 |
Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan through Kinosaki International Arts Centre |
| 2018 |
ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative- Mobility First grant |
| 2017 |
Australia Council for the Arts |
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Creatie Victoria |
| 2016 |
Australia Korea Foundation |
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Creative Victoria |
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Australian Artists' Grant - NAVA |
| 2015 |
Kinosaki International Art Centre AIR program |
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Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2014 |
Creative Victoria |
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Australia Council for the Arts - Theatre and Dance boards |
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Asia in Australia - Australia Council for the Art |
| 2013 |
The Australian International Cultural Council |
| 2012 |
Korea - Australia Conenction Initiative - Aystralia Council for the Arts |
| 2010 |
The Australian Academy of the Humanities |
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The Japan Foundation |
| 2008 |
Arts
Development - Arts Victoria |
| 2008 |
Key
Orgabisation Grant, Emerging (tyc)- Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2008 |
City
of Melbourne Art Funding |
| 2008 |
Cultural
Exchange - Arts Victoria |
| 2008 |
Skills
and Arts Development - Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2008 |
International
Market Development - Arts Victoria |
| 2007 |
The
Australian International Cultural Council, 2007 |
| 2007 |
Kultour
- touring grant for Australian Multicultural Arts - Australian Council
for the Arts |
| 2007 |
International
Market Development - Australia Council for the Arts/Arts Victoria |
| 2007 |
Multicultural
Festivals & Events - Victorian Multicultural Commission |
| 2005 |
The
Nomura Cultural Foundation grant |
| 2004 |
International
Program - Arts Victoria |
| 2004 |
Artists
in Schools - Department of Education & Training/Arts Victoria |
| 2002 |
The
Japan Foundation, local grant |
| 1994 |
First
Prize - Grand Prix, the 4th International Textile Fair (Kyoto, Japan) |
| 1993 |
Subsidy
for Young Artists - Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
Public
Collections |
| National
Gallery of Victoria / Art Bank / Museum of Victoria |
| Nishijin
Textile Industrial Association / The Royal Blind Association in NSW |
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| Selected
Projects |
| 2024 |
In This House, Placing stpries in tatami room - @ Okukinosaki Seaside Hotel, Takeno |
| 2023 |
In This House, Reading together in tatami room - @Tanaka house, Takeno, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2022 |
Outland Fish - Performance @ HPAC(Wonju) & Be IN (Jeju island), Korea |
| 2022 |
In This House - Screening & Meeting @Tanaka house, Takeno, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2021 |
In This House - Performance installation @Tanaka house, Takeno, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2020 |
Vessels of life - Installation with Aboriginal collaborators, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne |
| 2019 |
In our town - cross-artform community project, Munmak shijan, Korea |
| 2018 |
Practical research of Sijan - supported by ASEF Mobility First grant, Korea |
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Published: Wonju traditional market art reserch book |
| 2017 |
The 21C Democracy - International artist-in-residence project, HPAC, Korea |
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Ensrined Time - in Empty House, installation performance, Hooyong Festival, Korea |
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Wonju market artists' research with Nottle Theatre Company, Korea |
| 2016 |
Ashi-yu meeting - Water in Seoul, installation performance, Seoul Street Arts Festival |
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Kinosaki International Art Centre artist-in-residence, Hyogo, Japan |
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Vessels of life - collaboration with Aboriginal artists, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia |
| 2015 |
Collisions: Cross cultural collaborations, Shepparton Art Museum / Gallery Kaiela, Shepparton Victoria |
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Kekkai
beyond fixed boundaries - international collaborative installation /performance
with Theatre Nottle (Sth Korea), Castlemaine State Festival |
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Kesepen - international collaboration with Surya Kencana (Indonesia), Yogyakarta Indonesia |
| 2014 |
Gu:t - Installation Dance Performance development with Soo Yeun You and Albert David @ Lucy Guerin Studio |
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The Dead Twin - Development & showing at FCAC |
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Everyman & the Pole Dancers, Collaboration theatrework of Auto Da Fe (Australia) & Shinjuku Ryozanpaku (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 2013 |
Banh
Chung - Audio Pefromance Istallation, Footscray Communisty Arts Centre |
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Kekkai - international collaborative installation /performance
with Theatre Nottle (Sth Korea), National Theatre of Korea - presentation @PAMS |
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Magnificus Magnificus - Collaboration with Liz Lea and Tammi Gissell, The Street Theatre, Canbera |
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Installation st DANscienCE festival, CSIRO Dicovery Centre, Canbera |
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In Flight - Collaboration with Liz Lea, The Naitonal Library in Canbera |
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Kekkai - international collaborative installation /performance
development with Theatre Nottle (Sth Korea), Mullae Arts Facory, Seoul |
| 2012 |
Banh
Chung - Audio Pefromance Istallation, Dancehouse, Melbourne |
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Rasa
Sayang - tyc_Virtual Temple, Installation / Dance performance
Georgetown Festival, Penang, Malaysia |
| 2011 |
Kekkai - international collaborative installation /performance /research project
Artist in residence, Bundanon NSW & Monash University in Melbourne |
| 2010 |
Kekkai - international collaborative installation /performance /research development
with Theatre Nottle (Sth Korea), Monash University and tyc virtual
temple, Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, South Korea |
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Ocean
white - visual, sound, lighting installation/performance
development |
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Buddha
Body series - Rasa Sayang - tyc_Virtual Temple, Installation / Dance performance,
45 downstairs, Melbourne |
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Banh
Chung - performance directed by Chi Vu, Richmond Library, Melbourne |
| 2009 |
Budak
Melaka - tyc_Virtual Temple presents Dance performance with sound / visual
/ media Installation
St Paul Church, Melaka Art and Performance Festival, Malaysia |
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Stanza - Dance performance directed by Soo Yeun You, Studio B221, Faculty of Dance
VCA, Melbourne |
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Entrance - Yumi Umiumare solo performance, Malthouse Theatre - Tower Room, Melbourne |
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The
Buddha my body - A Palimpsest, International
collaborative performance, 45 downstairs |
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Buddha
body series 1 - Melangkori, Multi-modal performance, Northcote Town
Hall, Melbourne |
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Edge
- Pulse, site-specific multimedia art performance, City Village Rooftop,
Melbourne |
| 2008 |
The
Buddha my body - A Palimpsest, International
collaborative performance, Arko Arts Theatre, Seoul, Korea |
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The
Buddha my body - A Palimpsest, International collaborative development
and performance, Miroto, Indonesia |
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Scent
of Whiteness, Solo installation exhibition, Esplanade Theatre, Singapore |
| 2007 |
Palimpsest - International collaborative development stage-one
with Nottle Theatre (South Korea)
- Hooyong Performing Arts Centre Artist-In-Residency, Sth Korea |
| E1-Aether - Performance / Installation project, Biwako Biennale, Oumi-hachiman, Shiga,
Japan |
| E1-evocation
of a lost boy - Performance at Asian Arts Mart, Esplanade, Singapore |
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Ikat
weaving demonstration - National Gallery of Victoria |
| 2006 |
Ether - @ accented body, Brisbane Arts Festival |
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Waterhouse-natural
history art prize - South Australian Museum, Adelaide |
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in
the stillness (Solo Exhibition) - Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 |
Ether (development preview) - collaborative performance project, QUT, Brisbane |
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in
the stillness (Solo Exhibition) - Craft Victoria Gallery 1&2, Melbourne |
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The
5th Triennial International Textile Arts Exhbition, Tournai, Belgium |
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Japonica
ecletica - miwa cybele gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 |
Japanese
garden project - Artist in School at Broadford secondary college |
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Saji
& Yoji - Gallery Hanare, Hyogo, Japan |
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The
Space Between - International conference, Perth Institute of Contemporary
Arts |
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Pins
& Needles - National Gallery of Victoria |
| 2003 |
National
Conference - Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia - Melbourne Museum |
| 2002 |
Innovative
Textile - Ararat Gallery, Ararat, Victoria |
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Silence
Descends - Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourne |
| 2001 |
Spirit
of Beehive - Collaboration with ess//Hoshika, Melbourne Spring Fashion
Week |
| 2000 |
Chinese
Whispers - The Study Gallery, UK |
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The
5th In Our Hands - Nagoya Trade & Industry Centre, Japan |
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2on.
Mini-Textile International Contemporary Art Exhibition - M.X.Space,
Barcelona, Spain |
| 1999 |
Diaphanous
II - Nokia Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore |
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The
First Tactile Arts Exhibition - Customs House, Sydney |
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Diaphanous
I - Span Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1998 |
Tidal Recollections (Solo Exhibition) - Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne |
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13th
Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial - Touring interstates, Australia |
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Mapping,
Streaming, Accumulating (Solo Exhibition) - Arts Victoria |
| 1997 |
Drawing
Exhibition - Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1996 |
The
1st Flax&Linen Biennial in Upper-Normandy - Normandy, France |
| 1995 |
To
Read An Accumulated Recollection (Solo Exhibition) - RMIT Gallery in Storey Hall, Melbourne |
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Australian
Decorative Arts - Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne |
| 1994 |
The
11th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial - Touring interstates, Australia |
| 1993 |
Simile - Craft Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1992 |
A.C.A.F.
3 (The 3rd Australian Contemporary Art Fair) - Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne |
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Joint
Exhibition - Gryphone Gallery, University of Melbourne |
| 1991 |
To
Find a Ground (Solo Exhibition) - Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1989 |
3cm
above the Ground (Solo Exhibition) - Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1988 |
Selected
Works in Kyoto - Kyoto City Museum, Japan |
| 1987 |
Untitled
(Solo Exhibition) - Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto, Japan |
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