Mayu Kanamori

Mayu Kanamori arrived in Australia in 1981 from Tokyo, Japan. She works mostly in photography with emphasis on story telling with emphasis in collaboration with artists from diverse genres and disciplines. Her earlier works have dealt with themes relating to subcultures and minority groups within Japan and Australia, whilst her later works have explored Australian and Japanese cross cultural and migrational issues, and her more recent works further these concerns, attempting to make spiritual connections with people and landscapes of Australia and Japan. Her major productions include The Heart of the Journey which, tells a true story of a Broome based indigenous woman’s search for her Japanese father; CHIKA: A Documentary Performance a multi layered performance telling the true story of a Japanese tourist who was wrongly incarcerated in Melbourne for drug trafficking; and In Repose a multi disciplinary work with collaborating artists, site specific to old Japanese cemeteries in Australia. Mayu¹s works have received the NAIDOC Non Indigenous Reconciliation Award, a commendation by UN Media Peace Awards, selected as finalist for Walkley Awards, Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Julie Milowick Photography Prize and Harries National Digital Art Awards.

http://mayu.com.au/