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Midori Furze
Painter (Sydney, NSW)
Midori Furze is a Japanese-born contemporary artist, currently residing in Sydney's Northern Beaches. She holds a qualification in teaching and she has been painting full time for four years. She has been in more than 120 group exhibitions and 6 solo exhibitions since 2002. She was a finalist in the Warringah Art Prize, Hornsby Art Prize, Northbridge Art Prize, Sydney Royal Easter Show and North Sydney Art Prize. She has won many awards, including first prize in the Figurative section and first prize in the Contemporary section at St Ives Art exhibition.
Midori's works are influenced by her Japanese background, having studied calligraphy, Japanese music, literature and visual arts since childhood. She is also inspired by music and on her canvases Midori paints her dreams and concepts of love and music. Her art practice moves between realistic forms to highly illustrative works to free forms of abstracts.
Midori has run many innovative and successful community art events since 2009. In 2009, Midori ran a workshop, "Make up Your Mind", which was attended by seventy mothers and daughters. Everyone enjoyed drawing with recycled make-up products such as lipstick and eye shadows. A "Make up Your Mind" art exhibition was supported by creativemums.com and it took part in the Manly Arts Festival '09.
During the same festival, along with fellow artist Angela van Boxtel, Midori has also organised another exhibition, "Womanly", which displayed over 100 t-shirts designed by artists all over the world across a long clothesline at Manly Cove Beach. The spectacular view attracted many visitors. She also started helping at Art in Motion group, which runs the art program for Bear Cottage - the children’s hospice in Manly, and she coordinates the workshops for the children.
In 2010, Midori was accepted to a residency program at Eramboo Artists Environment, Terrey Hills. She was inspired by the area which is situated next to Ku-Ring-Gai national park and started folding origami kangaroos and paper cranes. She also worked for the New Horizons program which is a division of North Ryde Hospital.
Several "How to Paint" articles, in which Midori shares her knowledge of art, have been published in "Fine Art & Decorative Painting" magazine (Vol. 16 No.10, Vol.16 No.11, Vol.17 No.2, Vol.17 No.3 and Vol.17 No.12).
In 2011, Midori has worked with Japanese calligrapher, Hideo Dekura for Japan Disaster charity event. She is working for a fundrasing event “Fold with Love – 1000 Paper Cranes” for Sydney Royal Children's Hospital in Randwick with fellow artist & photographer, Mayu Kataoka. She is also planning to do some collaboration works with the Kangaroo Island sculptor, Indiana James and "Lipstick Girls" workshops with Melinda Jordi and Warringah Council.
Midori is available for commission work. Her Balgowlah studio is open by appointment. 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
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Midori Furze with
giant paper crane
Photo by Mayu Katoaka
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Midori Illusion
Acrylic on canvas
77cm x 93cm
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Moon Dance
Acrylic on canvas
117cm x 91cm
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Cherry Blossoms in EMajor
Acrylic on canvas
76cm x 91cm
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Jam Session #3
Oil on canvas
91cm x 76cm
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