17/05/2026
Botanica Exotica: Strange Garden 4, 2026 Dimensions 404 x 207x 207mm
This work is a part of a series that draws inspiration from the protists, fungi, lichen, mosses, and plant life that inhabit the Takayna region of western Tasmania — one of the world’s last surviving Gondwana rainforests. The forms present themselves as imagined entities that embody the spirit of this ancient ecosystem, reflecting the dense networks of life that exist beneath the forest canopy.
Currently on show studio Superhot Shop for Melbourne Design Week
Eugenie Kawabata is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist working from the Abbotsford Convent. Her sculptural practice transforms discarded textiles into materially complex works that explore ecology, transformation and permanence.Combining stitching, dyeing and binding with experimental resin processes, Kawabata creates forms that oscillate between abstraction and biological reference – artefacts that feel unearthed rather than made.She has exhibited widely, and her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, High House, Singapore and in private collections in Australia and overseas.
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