PROFILE / 略歴

Shinji Ogata's Profile

I was born in Yatsushiro City (Kumamoto Prefecture), Japan, in 1965. After graduating from high school, I lived in Tokyo for about 20 years before moving to Australia.

I moved to Brisbane, Australia in 2004. I've been running my business as a full-time watercolour artist since 2010. I also teach drawing/painting at home.

The most exciting subjects for me to draw or paint are human figures or other organic subjects, but I also enjoy painting other things such as landscapes and buildings, because even though they are inorganic substances, I naturally try to find the soul within them.

I mainly use pencil/ink and watercolour. I love this one-take finish style and enjoy the kind of improvisation it entails; it is also a very important aspect of my art.

I would like to keep searching for, and discovering, little pieces of the secret of this world's aesthetic mysteries through my drawing tour of life.

緒方慎二　略歴

1965年4月8日生まれ。　熊本県八代市出身。

多摩美術大学美術学部デザイン学科卒業

オーストラリア、ブリスベン在住。

2004年2月に渡豪。 2010年よりフルタイムの水彩画家として活動。自宅で絵画の指導も行う。

海外移住して、初めて日本の良さがわかるようになる。

日本の伝統的な描線を生かした画法を、自己のフィルタを通して対象をありのままに表現したいとの思いを込め、そのアナログ的な表現法に対し『Acoustic Drawings』 (アコースティック・ドローイング) と命名。

絵画におけるインプロヴィゼーション (即興性) を追求しつつ、またその対極にある日々の積み重ねによる対象を捉えるための鍛錬を地道に実践しながら、その二刀流的観点 (素描と細密画) を軸にして自己の審美心をより昇華させたいと願う。

2011. 8 　ʻAcoustic Drawings 1ʼ Solo Exhibition at Hanasho (Brisbane, Australia)

2011. 12 ʻChristmas Exhibitionʼ Group Exhibition at Hanasho (Brisbane, Australia)

2012. 2　ʻStory Bridgeʼ Group Exhibition at Robyn Bawer Studio Gallery (Brisbane, Australia)

2013. 12 ʻSeason Greetingsʼ Solo Exhibition at 5 Sisterʼ s Cafe (Brisbane, Australia)

2014. 12 ʻChristmas Exhibitionʼ Group Exhibition at Hanasho (Brisbane, Australia)

2015. 5 ʻPortraits & Landscapesʼ Solo Exhibition at Fairfield State Library (Brisbane, Australia)

2015. 5 ʻItʼs All About the Foodʼ Group Exhibition at Hanasho (Brisbane, Australia)

2015. 12 『アコースティック・ドローイングオーストラリアと日本 / 美しい情景たち』 in 八代

シャディ東京画廊２F ( 八代市、日本）

2016. 1 『アコースティック・ドローイングオーストラリアと日本 / 美しい情景たち』 in 広島

Humming Bird café ( 広島市、日本）

2016. 8 ʻ8 Japanʼ Group Exhibition at Mt Tamborine (Gold Coast, Australia)

2017. 7 2017 ArtWorld Studio Gallery Portrait Prize Exhibition (Brisbane, Australia)

2017. 10 2017 ArtWorld Studio Gallery Landscape Prize Exhibition (Brisbane, Australia)

2019. 12 緒方慎二水彩画展 Beautiful Creatures on Earth / 地上の美しき存在たち

　　　　ギャラリー&カフェ樹々 (札幌市、日本)

2022. 10 2022 Brisbane Portrait Prize Finalists Exhibition at Brisbane Powerhouse (Brisbane, Australia)

2023. 10 2023 Brisbane Portrait Prize (Salon de Refusés) at the Petrie Terrace Gallery (Brisbane, Australia)

2023. 11-12 ʻ2023 Hanasho Mixed Artists Christmas Exhibitionʼ at Hanasho (Brisbane, Australia)