from the heart

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. I’m a Japanese-Australian visual artist living in Naarm/Melbourne. I create artworks with handwoven tapestry, embroidery, printmaking techniques and papier-mâché.

Before the pandemic, embroidery was only a small part of my art practice that I combined with printmaking and collage. Producing large tapestries became difficult both physically and mentally during the many lockdowns, and I started to