Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Gallery Visits

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

All visiting Janet Laurence's Studio

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

With Ruark Lewis after his performance at MCA

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

With 2006 Zones of Contact BOS Artistic Director/Curator Charles Merewether

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Russel Storer introducing Janet Laurence's work at MCA

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Walkabout with Match Box Galleries, Circular Quay

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Enjoying Sydney

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Tony Bond introducing Kei Takemura's BOS works

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Visiting Martin Sharp's Home Studio

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Jennie Tate introducing her work in her Studio Terrace

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Anna Kristensen introducing her work at her COFA Studio, UNSW

Sydney Tokyo Geidai Exchange

Receiving Match Box Gallery Friendship Works at COFAspace, Paddington

Professor Hirotoshi Sakaguchi and alumni and current members of his Postgraduate Research Group from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (aka Tokyo Geidai) visited us in Sydney. We hosted an array of exchange activities with Sydney artists and curators to give them an insight to life in Sydney and the Australian Contemporary Art Scene. Highlights are in the above images - more details can be found on our blog at

http://www.matchboxprojects.com/wordpress/?m=200608

Sydney Tokyo Match Box Exchange Participants

back in 5, Monika Behrens, Simon Cooper, Hamilton Darroch, Linda Dennis, Keiko Inoue, Koujirou Inoue, Anna Kristensen,Mahou Kudou, Janet Laurence,Ruark Lewis, Zoe MacDonell, Match Box, Kana Matsushima, Yuka Nakamura, Taichi Oda, Yuna Ogino, Toshiko Oiyama, Sue Pedley, Chizuko Saito, Hirotoshi Sakaguchi, Martin Sharp, Naomi Shedlezki, Leanne Shedlezki, Jennie Tate, Takafumi Tsuchiya, Isao Yamaguchi

THANK YOU

Thank you to all our Sydney participants that welcomed us into their studios/homes and joined us throughout the journey.

Special thanks to Linda Dennis at Tokyo Geidai for helping us make things happen. We gratefully thank the following for their support towards our Match Box Exchange Tour:

Judith Blackell, Head, Artistic Programs, MCA
Anthony Bond, General Manager, Curatorial Services, Art Gallery of NSW
Craig Figtree, General Manager, Aussie Blue Tours
Ian Howard, Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Ruark Lewis, Artist, Biennale of Sydney
Charles Merewether, Artistic Director and Curator, Biennale of Sydney, 2006
Yasuko Miyashiro, Interpretor/Translator
Russel Storer, Curator, MCA

A special thank you to Qantas, Qantas Holidays and the College of Fine Arts for their support