Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839–92)   Cooling off at Shijō (Shijō nōryō)

from the series One hundred phases of the moon(Tsuki hyakushi) 1885

A Floating Life: Japanese prints - the collection of Dr Gary Hickey

Exhibition and Sale  -  Opens Oct 16th

Gary Hickey: MA, PhD. Research Fellow in Japanese Art History and Curatorship, the University of Melbourne. Gary has lived and worked in Asia for seven years studying traditional Japanese printmaking in Japan. He has worked for fifteen years in the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia, in the later institution as a senior curator of Asian art. In 1998 he curated the first major exhibition of Edo period Japanese art held in Australia, Beauty & Desire in Edo period Japan and in 2001 he curated the Japanese art in the 2001 exhibition, Monet & Japan. Catalogues accompanied both these exhibitions. Gary lectures and is published both in Australia and internationally. He was recently appointed as a director of the Tokyo-based prestigious arts organisation, the International Ukiyo-e Society and was a contributing author to the recent Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints.

Gary, together with his wife Haruyo,  will be conducting art tours to Japan  commencing November 2008. Information evenings at Kazari Collector, will be announced shortly.   www.japanarttour.com.au