Shoso Shimbo

Hanging installation with Kokedama at Metascent , Collingwood, Victoria.  https://www.shoso.com.au   https://www.facebook.com/ikebanaaustral...

The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show ends tomorrow (31 March 2019). Shoso and several other Wa participants joined the sho...

Shoso Shimbo's works have been selected for the two prestigious contemporary art exhibitions. 21 September - 6 November 2018 :...

Plastic Tainai Kuguri by Shoso Shimbo at The Mining Exchange, Ballarat as part of BOAA till 6 November 2018. This work focuses on the...

Bring your plastic wastes (plastic bags, wrapping etc.) and attach them to Shoso’s installation, Plastic Tainai Kuguri at BOAA. Just medi...

Originally inspired by Daniel McCormick’s watershed sculpture, this project, a storm water filtering dam, is a small scale en...

Go and see Shoso Shimbo's floating & flashing sculpture, Sea snakes at the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, 17 March - 2 April 2018. S...

I have been arguing that the most important factor in contemporary art is meaning. The meaning is often produced through the contexts of...

I have been writing about contemporary art, particularly about how important it is to have meaning, which depends on the context of the w...

Enjoy Shoso Shimbo's works at Mondopiero. Top: Vertical garden Middle: Floating bamboo forest Bottom: Ikebana sculpture at t...

Finally, it's over. While I was working to break down my installation, I noticed that many birds were looking at me. I left some f...

My work will be on display till the end of Archibald Prize Exhibition 2015 at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.  http://archibaldballarat.c...

Week 2 (11 October 2015): Shoso Shimbo's installation for Archibald Prize Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ballarat. His work will evolve...

Week 1 (4 October 2015): Shoso Shimbo's installation for Archibald Prize Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ballarat. His work will evolve ...

We have been thinking what ikebana (a style of Ikebana in the Muromachi period) is. It seems to mean making flower alive. Does it mean wh...

We have been trying to find out what Ikebana is. Historically ikebana was a style of Ikebana ( Ikebana as a general term for Japa...

Shoso Shimbo was selected as one of the eight artists commissioned for the Lights On | Lights Off project. When: 26, 27 and 31 July 2014 ...

What is Ikebana? It may take a while to come up with a good definition. Let’s start by looking at an official definition by Kojien. Ikeb...

Shoso Shimbo was one of the 20 artists selected for the Scupturescape in the Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2014. http://www.shoso.c...

Shoso created a large Ikebana work, Flower Torii Gate for the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Project, a part of the the Ne...