Yoko Ozawa
Yoko Ozawa — By the Window #3 (From the Wind series), 2025
DONE/UNDONE
Curated by Joseph Gardner
VISIONARIES 2025: Presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives.
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'By the Window (From the Wind series)' demonstrates the wind, captured like a painting, frozen in a moment of
action. Ozawa observes these everyday celestial events and explores her lifelong concept of the Japanese notion of 余白 Yohaku (blank space), and another word called 間 Ma.
Ozawa has explored this natural phenomenon from a unique perspective in her Wind Series. She brings a fresh understanding of the interconnectedness between things and human experiences, that hold possibility and meaning, instead of simply 'nothingness'. This results in an enhanced understanding of the world and our minds through her work. She believes that the practice of ceramics, through the Yohaku's, embodies a shift towards modern non-material-oriented living and mindfulness.
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Born in Japan, artist Yoko Ozawa has been creating ceramic since 2003. Her studies in Japanese painting led her into ceramics.
Inspired by a lifelong interest in natural phenomena through the Japanese notion of 余白 Yohaku (blank space). Her work is also deeply influenced by the textures and tones found within nature, which was initiated by her upbringing in the Japanese countryside and further developed through her experiences and observations of the Australian landscape, where she now lives and works. Yoko has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and evens in Australia, Japan, and England.
14 November 2025 - 7 February 2026
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Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator – presenting DONE/UNDONE: an exhibition of 50+ artists, and one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent.
DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation – a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making – choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.
Joseph Gardner is the Style Editor at Vogue Living, with a decade of experience in publishing and styling, and the founder of Sydney-based gallery, Studio Gardner.
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Material: Stoneware, slip, glaze
Dimensions: approx. 85 x 28 x 8cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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