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Young
installation artist, sculptor and award winning ikebana
practitioner Evan Demas exhibited at Kazari for the first time in
the exhibition Sculptors at Kazari 2008 opening 14th August
2008.
An assistant to
visiting Japanese Master Tetsunori Kawana exhibiting at the
National Gallery of Victoria in 2009, Demas will create a large
scale, site specific installation exploring line, mass and material
influenced by avant garde ikebana practice.
photo
©Tony Delves 2009
Evan with Kawana NGV International
Great Hall May 2009
Installation 2009 - Kazari Collector
Exhibition 28th May -
25thy June
Installation Kazari Collector Window
2008 - created on site
Evan Demas has a strongly
material practice that explores the tension between intuitive and
rational processes. Bodily interaction is contrasted with
industrially processed materials. The created textures, folds,
shadows, lines, creases and voids result in highly expressive and
dramatic works where the intention is to allude to a liminal or
transmutative state, in which there can be no definitive patterns
in natural or cultural systems, only presumptions in an orderly
chaos.
MA RMIT
2008
BA RMIT.
(With distinction) 2005
Awarded
3rd Grade Teaching Certificate of the Sogetsu School of
Japan
Living
and working in Melbourne
Awards
2005 &
2006 Awarded ‘Norman and Mary Sparnon Endowment’
enabling financial assistance for study in Japan,
2005
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show (Window
Competition) – Silver prize $2,500
2004
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show – Gold
prize
2003
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show – Silver
prize
2002
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show – Silver
prize
2001
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show - Silver
prize
Exhibitions
2008 Sculptors
at Kazari, Kazari Collector Melbourne
2008
Engaging Matter. Yarra Sculpture Gallery
Melbourne
2006
Amid: Matter, Light and Place. Alliance Française Gallery Melbourne
International flower and Garden Show
2005 Terra
Firma. RMIT Graduation Exhibition
Art Of Flowers,
Government House Sydney
Melbourne
International flower and Garden Show
Sogetsu Group
Exhibition, Heidi Gallery
2004
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show
2003
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show
2002
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show
2001
Melbourne International flower and Garden Show
Engaging Matter Series
Installation detail
RMIT Masters Graduate Exhibition 2009
Engaging Matter at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery,
2008
Installation
2009 - Kazari Collector
Installation 2009 - Kazari Collector
Installation 2009 - Kazari Collector
Installation 2009 - Kazari Collector
Installation 2009 - Kazari Collector
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