Aisha Hara solo exhibition "The Moon's Garden"
shimokitazawaartsNovember 29 - December 15, 2024
1-7 pm
Closed on Mon, Tue and Wed.
*reception：Nov. 30, 5-7pm
*Anyone can participate in the reception.
Shimokitazawa Arts is pleased to announce to hold Aisha Hara's solo exhibition "Moon Garden." Aisha Hara was born in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, 2001, graduated from Fine Arts (Painting) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia in 2022. and has roots in Japan and Australia. She is an up-and-coming artist who has been steadily expanding her range of activities, participating in many exhibitions mainly in her hometown of Melbourne since she was a student at RMIT, and staying in Kyoto last year and Berlin this year, and collaborating with dance performances. The charm of her work is the transparent colors and lyrical canvase that mix figurative and abstract elements.
Although Aisha Hara creates work based on her identity as an Asian-Australian, she still has the dilemma of not fully understanding Japanese, her father's language. This solo exhibition focuses on a poem from her paternal grandmother, who was also a nun and a poet, and the works were mainly created in Berlin. Her work, which gives a sense of both anxiety and hope in its floating feeling, will gently touch the gentle sadness within the viewer. Please take a look at Aisha Hara's imaginary landscape with her grandmother's poem "Potato Flower."
Artist Statement
In the Moon’s Garden I explore my different reflections of the moon. With a palette of night moon shine and hazy daylight, the paintings are ambiguous and symbolic.
I read a poem by my Grandmother recently and wanted to think about my distance to her and our language barriers. Therefore, by painting the symbols in her poem I feel a little closer to understanding where I came from and where we are going.
I am based in Melbourne, Australia but I painted this series of works in Berlin, Germany. The energetic city and the shaking environment of remnants of war made me want to make more sincere and honest work. I hope my work can feel free like music and live as imagined landscapes in the ‘Moon’s Garden’.
Aisha Hara's grandmother's poem
（Simple English translation）
Potato flower
A sunny day with butterflies in the field and potatoes blooming all white.
The rain remains in the morning and the bright thunder echoes once more as we enter summer.
As the hot day sets, I want to softly scoop a white clouds into my palms and they remains.
A sparkling aircraft is sucked into the white clouds that spread across the shallow green sky.
When spring comes, this plane will fly to the southern hemisphere, in the grave where my child rests.
Aisha Hara
Born in Naarm Melbourne, Australia; 2001
2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2024 Erik Schmid's assistant, Berlin, Germany
favorite artists：Tracey Emin, Mamma Andersson, Mizukami Emi, Kaneda Mio
solo exhibition
2024 "Unfolded Lines" ACAE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
group exhibition
2024
"In 'The' Making Co-Exist Collective Live Painting Performance" Melbourne, Australia
"Caves Fundraiser" Caves Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
"Comma Collective" Brunswick pop-up gallery, Melbourne, Australia
"Matters of Material" No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023
"Object Merchant" Johnston Street Melbourne, Australia
Open Studio, Tsukimisou, Kyoto, Japan
2022
RMIT Degree Show
"The General Public" 99% Gallery , Melbourne, Australia
"Archives of Feelings" RMIT Design Hub Gallery , Melbourne, Australia
"The Space Between" Rey Area RMIT , Melbourne, Australia
"Passing Rituals" Brunswick street gallery , Melbourne, Australia
"Co-Exist" Schoolhouse Studios , Melbourne, Australia
"Zine Launch" Melbourne Science Gallery , Melbourne, Australia
2021
"HELL N’ BACK Again" Caves Gallery Fundraiser, Melbourne, Australia
Forty-Five Downstairs Emerging Artist Prize, Melbourne, Australia
Wyndham National Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Commision
2023 ‘All to Myself’ Single Jacket cover, ‘Ako’ Londog Records, Tokyo
Publication
2021 De-orienatalising Asian Women in Australia, Reshaping Worlds, Australia
Residencies
2023 Metropolitan Fukujusou, Kyoto, Japan
Award
2021
Wyndham National Art Prize, Finalist, Australia
Forty-Five Downstairs Emerging Artist Award, Australia
