KEN + JULIA YONETANI / DESIRE

Ken + Julia Yonetani_Still Life: The Food Bowl (install shot)_2011_Murray River Salt_dimensions variable

Ken + Julia Yonetani will be exhibiting as part of Desire, an exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre curated by Rilka Oakley.

Desire explores how our desires create who we are and yet also limit our ability to reach our full potential. In this sense desire is a double edged sword both restricting us and propelling us forward. Desire is a curatorial response to the theme of the 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire. Artists include Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, Sarah Breen Lovett, Mike Parr, Joan Ross, and Ken and Julia Yonetani.

The exhibition opening for Desire will be held tomorrow, Friday 14th March, at 6pm and will run until 11 May 2014.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / BREATHING TREE

 Ken and Julia Yonetani_Breathing Tree_2012_Installation at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Ken and Julia Yonetani have recently completed Breathing Tree, a sculpture comprised of 12,000 tiles to represent the stomata of a single breathing leaf.

"This work is inspired by microscopic images of stomata, the pore openings on leaves used in respiration. The images were acquired from leaves of eucalyptus trees growing near the Blue Mountains National Park, using electron microscope technology from the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility, the University of Sydney." - Ken and Julia Yonetani

The installation will be permanently displayed on the exterior wall of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, in Katoomba.

Ken and Julia was also recently featured and interviewed by The Cloudscape, an art and lifestyle hub surrounding the Blue Mountains, which you can click here to read.