Meat Pie Acrylic on canvas 102cm x 102cm Click to enlarge

The Pianist Oil on canvas 91cm x 76cm Click to enlarge

Déjà vu #3 Acrylic on canvas 41cm x 51cm Click to enlarge

Jam Session #3 Oil on canvas 91cm x 76cm Click to enlarge

The Jazzman Acrylic on canvas 71cm x 102cm Click to enlarge

Midori Furze
Painter (Sydney, NSW)

“Celebrating the music that heals us” - Midori Furze

Midori was born in Japan. She started taking lessons in calligraphy, music and visual art when she was in pre-school. Her first oil painting was a still life when she was in Year 3. She has received a calligraphers name when she was sixteen. She also has learnt the tea ceremony, the flower arrangement and the old Japanese literatures. She moved to Australia and has been lived in Sydney's Northern Beaches since 1989.

Since 2002 Midori has been actively participating in various art exhibitions in Australia. She has won many awards, including two first prizes in the Figurative and Contemporary sections at Northern Suburbs A & H Society Art exhibition in 2006.

She is a member of Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society, Pittwater Community Arts, North Shore Art Society, Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater, Northern Expressions and more.

She loves music and she often translates her love of music into art. On her canvases she paints her dreams and concepts of love and music.

Midori likes acrylic and oil painting. Recently she started using old make up products for drawing. She ran a successful workshop, "Make up Your Mind", at Manly Library in May 2009. It was hosted by CreativeMums.com.au. More than 70 mothers and daughters attended the workshop and enjoyed drawing with old make up products. In September 2009, a "Make up Your Mind" art exhibition took part in the Manly Arts Festival 09.

She also organised the t-shirt exhibition, “Womanly” at Manly Cove Beach with Angela van Boxtel in the Manly Arts Festival 09. It was a fantastic display with over 100 T-shirts from all over the world on a long cloth line at the beach.

She also writes and shares her knowledge on art magazines. The Demonstration of "How to paint" series has been published in the art magazine, "Fine Art & Decorative Painting" Vol.16 No.10, Vol.16 No.11, Vol.17 No.2 and Vol.17 No.3.

Midori is available for commission work. Please feel free to contact her below, or call 0431 895 757 during business hours. Gallery enquiries welcome.

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Selected Exhibitions and Galleries
2009 Gallery Cats Sydney, Art Sydney 09, Moore Park, Sydney
2009 Solo exhibition, “Jazz in the Air” Manly Library, Manly
2009 “Womanly” T-shirt exhibition, Manly Beach
2009 “Make up Your Mind” Café Chill, Manly
2009 “Cosmopolitan, Baileys or Midori?”, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2008 Solo Exhibition ”Always Keep Music in Mind”, Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
2007 “Lumiere” Glen Street Gallery, Belrose, NSW
2007 Solo Exhibition “Jazz & Sushi” Restaurant Jazushi, Surry Hills, NSW
2005 “Sixcircles” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW
2003 “Infusion” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW
2002 “North Exposure” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW

Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
Art Sydney, Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park
Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale
Glen Street Gallery, Belrose
St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda VIC
Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society Exhibitions, St Ives/Gordon
G26 Art Show, Milsons Point / Northbridge / Durlinghurst
Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Northern Expressions Art Exhibitions, Sydney
Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst
Art for Goats, Sydney
Pittwater Community Arts Exhibition, Avalon
North Shore Art Society Art Exhibitions, Manly / Collaroy / Mona Vale
Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater Exhibitions, Warriewood / Manly / Mona Vale
Sorlies Restaurant, Belrose
Currabubula Art Show, Currabubula, NSW
Parliament House, Sydney
GIG Gallery, Glebe
Red Door Creative, Dural
MLC Gallery, Ultimo
The Painters Gallery, Mona Vale
Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney Show Ground, Homebush
Singleton Art Prize, Singleton NSW
Seaforth Art Show, Seaforth / Balgowlah
Mosman Art Market, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman
Northern Suburbs A&H Society Art Exhibition, St Ives
Broken Bay Art Exhibition, Newport

Press / Articles / Interviews
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Sep 25
2009 “Red Door Creative” magazine
2009 Jenta (The Japanese magazine)
2009 Sam and Anthony, Northern Beaches Community Radio FM 88.7 Sep 13
2009 “Art Beat” Bree Ashwin, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Aug 17
2009 Jenta (The Japanese magazine)
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Aug 6,
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 June 3,
2009 Barbara Shorter, Northern Beaches Community Radio FM 88.7 May 20
2009 Sue Hoban, Manly Daily, “Profile” May 19
2009 Jenta (The Japanese magazine)
2009 Manly Daily, Lava
2009 Sunday Telegraph
2008 Sydney Morning Herald, “Spectrum”
2008 Sonia Komaravalli, Ciao Magazine
2008 Mai Igarashi, Nichigo Press (The Japanese newspaper), November
2008 Innerwest Courier, November
2007 Daily Telegraph, October