About Dominic
ドミニク・フォンデ
Born
26/03/1974
1974 年 3 月 26 日生まれ
Contact
コンタクト先
www.dominicfonde.com
dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
Tel +81-078-862-1189
Mob +81-080-7020-4138
ウェブサイト：www.dominicfonde.com
e-mail アドレス：dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
電話（自宅）：078-862-1189
電話（携帯）：080-7020-4138
Current Position
Freelance Glass artist based in Kobe, Japan.
現職：ガラスアーティスト（フリーランス）、神戸在住
Work history
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Tutor at Jewellery Design and Management School, Singapore 2012 to 2014
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Designer for Synergraphic/Florenz 2011 to 2013
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Director for Dominic Fondé Glass Art 2008 to Present.
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Education Coordinator and Partner in Art Glass Solutions. 2008-2011
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Artist in residence for Synergraphic Design Pte Ltd Singapore 2006-2008
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Artist in residence at The world of Glass Museum, St. Helens UK 2003-2006
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Glass blower/studio manager for Newell Glass London 2001-2003
職歴：
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2008 年以降現在まで Dominic Fondé Glass Art ：ダイレクター
2012-2014
Jewellery Design and Management School, Singapore ：指導教官
2011-2013
Synergraphic/Florenz ：デザイナー
2008-2011
Art Glass Solutions：パートナー（教育担当）
2006-2008
Synergraphic Design Pte Ltd Singapore ：アーティスト・イン・レジデンス
2003-2006
The world of Glass Museum, St. Helens UK ：アーティスト・イン・レジデンス
2001-2003
Newell Glass London ：吹きガラス作家、スタジオマネージャー
Art Education
 Master of Design (specialising in blown glass) at The Edinburgh College of Art. Grad. 2001
 B.A.Hons in Ceramics and Glass 2.1 at The Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education.
1993-1996
 Foundation Studies in Art and Design at the Newcasle College of Art and Technology 19921993
学歴：
 2001 年 Master of Design (specialising in blown glass) at The Edinburgh College of Art卒業
 1993-1996 B.A.Hons in Ceramics and Glass 2.1 at The Buckinghamshire College of Higher
Education.
 1992-1993 Foundation Studies in Art and Design at the Newcasle College of Art and
Technology
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Selected Exhibitions/Commission
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Group exhibition at Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo, August 2014
Ten Nights of Dream, Japan Creative Centre Singapore 4 th to 16th April 2014
100 artists 100 friends 100 songs TCC Singapore October 2013
Art in Action (Demonstrator) Waterperry Gardens UK. August 2013
Familial: an exhibition of glass art at Millenia Walk Singapore May 2013
Redress: Stop the traffic. Ion Art Space Singapore November 2012
100 Artists 100 Dreams, TCC Singapore October 2012
Medallions, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge August 2012
Blast 2012 Zest Gallery London August 2012
Micrographia- and event for the Contemporary Glass Society “Glass Games” Buckinghamshire,
UK August2012
”Wisdom Beyond Borders” Charity art auction. Singapore Feb 2012
”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa exhibited at Art
Stage, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Jan 2012
”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa exhibited at Kyoto
Media festival, Kyoto November 2011.
”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa for her solo show
“Cultural Bits” Japan Creative Centre, Singapore September 2011
”The world outside your window” artwork created by “Seidenreich” for Small Sculpture Show,
Sculpture Square, Singapore October 2011
”The Feather and the Shadow” solo show at Thavibu Gallery Bangkok, August 2011
Artist in residence for Tanglin trust School August to December 2011
Talk for Science Centre Singapore “Science Café: the World without Glass” 31st June 2011.
Engraver for launch of Rouge Automatique by Guerlain May 2011.
”Unshakable” light Editions Gallery, Singapore, March 2011
”The Human tide” one man show, written and performed by Dominic Fonde, Sculpture Square 17
and 19th Feb 2011
Commemorative Plaque for “Tanglin Trust School Sixth Form Centre”, Singapore. Unveiled by
HRH Duke of York, 15th Sept. 2010
“Birdsong” Residency and exhibition at Toyama Glass Studio, Japan, April – May 2010, Singapore
August 2010, Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland Nov – Dec 2010, Sculpture Square Singapore
May 2011.
“The World Without Glass” Two day residency at The Tanglin Trust School, Singapore Jan. 2009
“Migrate” Touring exhibition organized by The Scottish Glass Society, July 2009 to March 2010
Palimpsest. - An Art Glass Solutions Exhibition curated by Dominic Fonde, Nov 2009 Sculpture
Square Singapore
Clearly Drawn. Sept- Nov 2009 Exhibition at The Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
The Red and The Orange. A collaborative exhibition with B. Jane Cowie for Art Glass Solutions.
Vitria Gallery, Singapore 23rd May - 12June 2009
One week residency at Tanglin Trust School Singapore March 9 -13 2009
Cohesion at the Pyramid Gallery, York UK March 2009
Art Singapore (with Art Glass solutions) 9th -13th oct 2008
“Fragments” group show at Forth Gallery, 69a Pagoda Street, Singapore. May 2008
6 engraved plates with short stories for Adamson Noon, London April 2007
“My Secret Garden” 3 engraved windows for Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses.
Jan. 2007
Featured artist at The Strathearn Gallery Feb - March 2006
The Chelsea Crafts Fair 2004 and 2005
Art in Action. Waterperry House, Oxon July 2005
Verbatim: The Art of Text, Byard Art, Cambridge June 2005
21st Century Glass. The Daniel Katz Gallery London Jan. 2005
British Glass, Glass Inspiration, Burgdorf Switzerland Nov 2004
British Glass Biennale 2004 Ruskin Mill Stourbridge
Haiku and Glass A series of collaborations between eleven glass artists and eleven poets. Curated
by Dominic Fondé
June - Sept. 2003 The Bowes Museum
Oct to Dec. 2003 The Glass Art Gallery, London
Jan - Feb 2004 The World Of Glass, St. Helens
April - May 2004 The Customs House, South Shields
“Storylines” April 2003 The Scottish Gallery
“9 x 9”The leather Market, Weston Street, London 2001
“Ten Green Bottles” Work by ten glass blowers, based on a short story by Dominic Fondé and
drawings by primary school children. Curated by Dominic Fondé
March - May 2002 The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
August - Sept. 2002 The National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Oct. 2002 The World of Glass, St. Helens
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Nov. 2002 The Edinburgh College of Art
4th March 2004 Charity Auction in aid of POD at The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
展覧会歴・依頼制作
2014 年 8 月
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Group exhibition at Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo
2014 年 4 月 4 日〜16 日 Ten Nights of Dream, Japan Creative Centre Singapore
2013 年 10 月 100 artists 100 friends 100 songs TCC Singapore
2013 年 8 月
Art in Action (Demonstrator) Waterperry Gardens UK
2013 年 5 月
Familial: an exhibition of glass art at Millenia Walk Singapore
2012 年 11 月 Redress: Stop the traffic. Ion Art Space Singapore
2012 年 10 月 100 Artists 100 Dreams, TCC Singapore
2012 年 8 月 Medallions, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
2012 年 8 月 Blast 2012 Zest Gallery London
2012 年 8 月 Micrographia- and event for the Contemporary Glass Society “Glass Games”,
Buckinghamshire, UK
2012 年 2 月 ”Wisdom Beyond Borders” Charity art auction. Singapore
2012 年 1 月 ”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa
exhibited at Art Stage, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2011 年 11 月 ”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa
exhibited at Kyoto Media festival, Kyoto
2011 年 9 月 ”Glass Sansui” series of four engravings commissioned by Prof. Naoko Tosa for
her solo show “Cultural Bits” Japan Creative Centre, Singapore
2011 年 10 月 ”The world outside your window” artwork created by “Seidenreich” for Small
Sculpture Show, Sculpture Square, Singapore
2011 年 8 月 ”The Feather and the Shadow” solo show at Thavibu Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
2011 年 8 月〜12 月 Artist in residence for Tanglin trust School
2011 年 6 月 Talk for Science Centre Singapore “Science Café: the World without Glass”
2011 年 5 月 Engraver for launch of Rouge Automatique by Guerlain
2011 年 3 月 ”Unshakable” Light Editions Gallery, Singapore
2011 年 2 月 ”The Human tide” one man show, written and performed by Dominic Fonde,
Sculpture Square
2010 年 9 月 15 日 Commemorative Plaque for “Tanglin Trust School Sixth Form Centre”,
Singapore. Unveiled by HRH Duke of York
2010 年 4 月〜5 月 “Birdsong” Residency and exhibition at Toyama Glass Studio, Japan
巡回展 2010 年 8 月
Promontry, Singapore
2010 年 11 月〜12 月
Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland
2011 年 5 月
Sculpture Square Singapore
2009 年 1 月 “The World Without Glass” Two day residency at The Tanglin Trust School,
Singapore
2009 年 7 月〜2010 年 3 月 “Migrate” Touring exhibition organized by The Scottish Glass Society
2009 年 11 月 Palimpsest. - An Art Glass Solutions Exhibition curated by Dominic Fonde,
Sculpture Square Singapore
2009 年 9 月〜11 月 Clearly Drawn. Exhibition at The Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
2009 年 5 月〜6 月
The Red and The Orange. A collaborative exhibition with B. Jane Cowie for
Art Glass Solutions. Vitria Gallery, Singapore
2009 年 3 月
One week residency at Tanglin Trust School Singapore
2009 年 3 月
Cohesion at the Pyramid Gallery, York UK
2008 年 10 月
Art Singapore (with Art Glass solutions), Singapore
2008 年 5 月
“Fragments” group show at Forth Gallery, Singapore
2007 年 4 月
6 engraved plates with short stories for Adamson Noon, London
2007 年 1 月
“My Secret Garden” 3 engraved windows for Birmingham Botanical Gardens
and Glasshouses
2006 年 2 月〜3 月 Featured artist at The Strathearn Gallery
2004 年、2005 年
The Chelsea Crafts Fair
2005 年 7 月
Art in Action. Waterperry House, Oxon
2005 年 6 月
Verbatim: The Art of Text, Byard Art, Cambridge
2005 年 1 月
21st Century Glass. The Daniel Katz Gallery London
2004 年 11 月
British Glass, Glass Inspiration, Burgdorf Switzerland
2004 年
British Glass Biennale 2004 Ruskin Mill Stourbridge
2003 年 Haiku and Glass A series of collaborations between eleven glass artists and eleven
poets. Curated by Dominic Fondé
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2003 年 6 月〜9 月
The Bowes Museum
2003 年 10 月〜12 月
The Glass Art Gallery, London
2004 年 1 月〜2 月
The World Of Glass, St. Helens
2004 年 4 月〜5 月
The Customs House, South Shields
2003 年 4 月 “Storylines”, The Scottish Gallery, UK
2001 年
“9 x 9”The leather Market, Weston Street, London.
2002 年
“Ten Green Bottles” Work by ten glass blowers, based on a short story by Dominic
Fondé and drawings by primary school children. Curated by Dominic Fondé
2002 年 3 月〜5 月
The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
2002 年 8 月〜9 月
The National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2002 年 10 月
The World of Glass, St. Helens
2002 年 11 月
The Edinburgh College of Art
2004 年 3 月 4 日
Charity Auction in aid of POD at The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Collections
National Glass Art Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia
Toyama City Glass Collection, Japan
The Pilkington Collection, The World of Glass, St. Helens
The Collection of Prof. Dan Klein and Alan Poole, London (collection donated to Royal Museum of
Scotland in 2010)
The Rakow Library (Corning Musem of Glass) – catalogues of Haiku and Glass, Palimpsest and
Birdsong Exhibitions
収蔵
National Glass Art Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia
Toyama City Glass Collection, Japan
The Pilkington Collection, The World of Glass, St. Helens
The Collection of Prof. Dan Klein and Alan Poole, London (collection donated to Royal Museum of
Scotland in 2010)
The Rakow Library (Corning Musem of Glass) – catalogues of Haiku and Glass, Palimpsest and
Birdsong Exhibitions
Awards
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Associate Fellowship Guild of Glass Engravers. December 2009
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Craft Membership Guild of Glass Engravers December 2004
受賞
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2009 年 12 月
2004 年 12 月
Associate Fellowship Guild of Glass Engravers
Craft Membership Guild of Glass Engravers
Selected Publications
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Article “In Cold Blood” Singapore Scientist Singapore Science Centre Magazine Feb 201
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Editor of Australian Glass Society newsletter Dec 2011 to December 2013
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Editor of Glass Network, newsletter of The Contemporary Glass Society, UK 2002 -2006
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Article “ The world without glass”, Singapore Science Centre Magazine, Dec 2011
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Article “Glass and art: two sides of the same coin” Singapore Science Centre Magazine
September 2011
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Featured in “Creative Glass” by Danjela Kracun, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN -10 0674335057
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Article “Drawing as form – Exhibition review Singapore Gallery Guide Oct. 2009
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Article “Erased – Exhibition Review”, Singapore Gallery Guide Sept. 2009
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Article “Lasts/change – Exhibition review”, Singapore Gallery Guide July 2009
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Article “Comics and Superheroes – exhibition review, Singapore Gallery Guide June 2009
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Article “Under pressure” for Glashaus” magazine July 2008
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Article “Postcard from China” Contemporary Glass Society Newsletter Spring 2008
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Featured in “Techniques of Glass Engraving” Peter Dreiser and Jonathan Matcham. A & C
Black ISBN-10: 0713675160
出版物
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2013 年 2 月 Article “In Cold Blood” Singapore Scientist Singapore Science Centre Magazine
2011 年 12 月〜2013 年 12 月
Editor of Australian Glass Society newsletter
2002 年〜2006 年 Editor of Glass Network, newsletter of The Contemporary Glass Society, UK
2011 年 12 月
Article “ The world without glass”, Singapore Science Centre Magazine
2011 年 9 月
Article “Glass and art: two sides of the same coin” Singapore Science
Centre Magazine
Featured in “Creative Glass” by Danjela Kracun, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN -10 0674335057
2009 年 10 月 Article “Drawing as form – Exhibition review Singapore Gallery Guide
2009 年 9 月
Article “Erased – Exhibition Review”, Singapore Gallery Guide
2009 年 7 月
Article “Lasts/change – Exhibition review”, Singapore Gallery Guide
2009 年 6 月
Article “Comics and Superheroes – exhibition review, Singapore Gallery Guide
2008 年 7 月
Article “Under pressure” for Glashaus” magazine
2008 年春
Article “Postcard from China” Contemporary Glass Society Newsletter
Featured in “Techniques of Glass Engraving” Peter Dreiser and Jonathan Matcham. A & C
Black ISBN-10: 0713675160
Teaching/Guest Lecturing
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Lecture at Ausglass Conference 2013,“The Collective Vision”, at Wagga Wagga Australia and
4 day engraving workshop.
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Glass engraving workshop and Bead making demonstration for Canadian International School,
Katong Campus and Lakeside Campus, spring term, 2011 and 2012
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Seminar on Material Properties of Glass for Surface Pattern Design Class at NTU, April 2012
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Private tuition of students in glass engraving, drawing, fused glass, cast glass and bead
making, Singapore 2006 to present
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Engraving workshop Edinburgh College of Art, March 23 nd 2012
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Engraving Workshop Sunderland University/National Glass Centre March 22 nd 2012
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Engraving Class for Social Development Network, Singapore September 2011
ワークショップ・講演など
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2006 年以降現在まで
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Private tuition of students in glass engraving, drawing, fused glass,
cast glass and bead making, Singapore
2013 年 Lecture at Ausglass Conference 2013,“The Collective Vision”, at Wagga Wagga
Australia and 4 day engraving workshop.
2012 年、2011 年 Glass engraving workshop and Bead making demonstration for Canadian
International School, Katong Campus and Lakeside Campus, spring term
2012 年 4 月 Seminar on Material Properties of Glass for Surface Pattern Design Class at
NanyangTechnological University, Singapore
2012 年 3 月 Engraving workshop Edinburgh College of Art
2012 年 3 月 Engraving Workshop Sunderland University/National Glass Centre
2011 年 9 月 Engraving Class for Social Development Network, Singapore
About Dominic Fondé
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ドミニク・フォンデについて
Dominic Fondé is a professional glass artist who has been working with blown and engraved glass art
for since the mid 1990’s. He has many of his artworks in public and private collections in the United
Kingdom and Europe. His public commissions notably include a series of engraved art glass windows at
the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. In 2006 he relocated to Singapore and in early 2008 founded
Dominic Fonde Glass Art. At this time he worked as a partner and founding member of Art Glass
Solutions. He was commissioned by Versace to engrave perfume bottles at the launch of their new
fragrance at Civic Plaza, Singapore in 2008. Dominic was for many years the only professional glass
engraver working in Singapore and was featured on Media Corp TV programs "On The Beat" and
“Knockout”. In December 2008 he was elected to Associate Fellowship of the Guild of Glass Engravers.
In 2009 he took part in “Migrate” the 30th anniversary show of the Scottish Glass Society, which toured
the UK. His piece for the show titled “9 feathers” was auctioned to raise funds for the Scottish Glass
Society’s future projects. In 2011 his partnership with Art Glass Solutions was brought to a close in order
for him to concentrate on his personal projects such as “Birdsong”, a touring exhibition that visited
Japan, Scotland and Singapore during 2010 and 2011 and his one man show “The Human Tide” a
series of twelve linked short stories that explore the power of perfume which he wrote and performed in
early 2011.
Dominic uses the technique of drill engraving to inscribe his own original short stories onto glass
objects. Typically the objects are vessels, jugs, vases, goblets etc. The stories aim to explore the
emotional weight that such items have in our lives. A glass can hold more than water and vase more
than flowers. They hold thoughts feelings and memories too. His recent work has been focused on
images of birds and feathers.
“When Dominic first started working with me in the late 90’s he had already established an interest in
glass as a material but his secret passion was writing. Scrolling away his prolific stories while at the
same time struggling to express himself through the material of glass. It wasn’t until the marriage of this
writing and the material that he found his voice. The focus of that voice is narrative. We have both
chosen very different ways of examining the principles of storytelling in relationship to our chosen
material. We represent, perhaps the extremes; with Dominic dominating with words and I with image.
The connection being that we both use the transparency of the material as the vehicle of expression”
Steven Newell on Dominic Fondé
Dominic became fascinated with the technique of drill engraving while working in London for glass artist
Steven Newell in the late 1990's. Drill engraving offered him the opportunity to marry his two passions,
glass and story telling. Initially his short stories were science fiction and fantasy-based efforts but over
time he began to explore the emotional weight that objects such as vases, wine glasses and
paperweights have in peoples lives. These items might be fine craft objects or simply nick knacks picked
up at a rummage sale, never-the-less they become of crucial emotional importance to people and their
sudden loss can be a dramatic and devastating moment.
Glass exerts a fascination for Dominic due to his idea that we are currently living in the “glass age”. By
this he means that glass is the defining technological material of the times, just as stone was in the
stone age or iron in the iron age. Glass has played an indispensable role in shaping or world from its
applications in medical science through to spectacle lenses and windows that keep out the weather and
let light in. No material is so ubiquitous and yet so relied upon. Dominic regularly gives lectures and runs
workshops titled “The world without glass” in which he invites people to imagine a world where glass has
never been discovered.
Dominic's most recent work has been as a curator, or as he puts it a catalyst for collaborations between
artists. “Birdsong” was a project developed with his long time friend, glass artist Kathryn Pearce. It
started with the notion of birds sitting on telephone wires creating an image reminiscent of sheet music.
Music is an international form of communication and so Dominic and Kathryn collaborated with two
artists from Toyama Glass Studio in Japan. It was a chance for Dominic to push his drawing skills to the
fore. He created a series of engraved bird images focusing on owls and crows. This show in turn led to
his solo exhibition in Thailand, “The Feather and the Shadow” in which his engravings of owls are lit in
such a way as to render the glass invisible and the engraved line as a shadow on the wall. This is a very
modern take on a technique with a long history and tradition and highlights Dominic's understanding of
his medium.
Early 2014 saw a new phase in Dominic’s career when he realised a long held ambition to live in Japan.
He relocated to Kobe with his wife and established a home studio where he engraved and writes. A final
exhibition was held in Singapore in collaboration with the Japan Creative Centre. This show, “Ten Nights
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of Dream” was an exploration of the short stories of the same name by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki
and featured collaborations with a number of artists.
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