Kyoko Imazu

Kyoko Imazu’s work examines artificial and cultural constructions of nature using the motif of the rabbit. By juxtaposing depictions of rabbits ranging from fauna studies by eighteenth and nineteenth-century European explorers and scientists with contemporary imageries such as cartoon, children’s stories and games and through distorting and manipulating the rabbit’s physical structure, the work challenges conventional representations of this creature in a cross-cultural investigation. Copper plate engraving, used to reference eighteenth century natural illustration evokes an imagined evolution of this iconic animal.

Kyoko arrived in Australia in 2002 and completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking) in 2007 and selected for various awards and exhibitions in Australia.

Second Nature
Main Gallery
7 Apr 09 – 24 Apr 09