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2.11.2006 : Looking to the East New Exhibition: 'Looking to the East', The Art of Ken Done as Influenced by Japan. 11th October until 30th November. ‘The fact that we are strongly attracted to the paintings and designs of this particular artist born of a spiritual background completely different from ours in many respects cannot be easily explained away as a mere case of crying for the locally unavailable. What diagonally different things sometimes make us see is, as in the case of a mirror, nothing but ourselves. By confirming this fact, we will be able to better see, and hopefully get closer to, the world extending luxuriously beyond the mirror.’ Shinichi Segi, art critic, Tokyo, 1991 In an essay in the catalogue accompanying Done’s 1991 major Japanese exhibition, noted art critic Shinichi Segi, called Ken Done “The Southern Hemisphere’s most climatic and chromatic artist”. This exhibition travelled to six cities throughout Japan and was seen by over 100,000 people. Ken Done’s latest exhibition “Looking to the East” was opened by Mr. Tsukasa Kawada, Consul- General of Japan in Sydney on the 11th October 2006. Since his first visit to Japan in 1962, Done’s work has been energised https://secure.done.com.au/news/editarticle.asp#by his understanding of that country’s contemporary and traditional art and poetry and the relationship between Japanese art and design. The artist is attracted by the sensibility of a society that reveres art as a living part of daily existence. Gallery hours: daily 10 am to 5.30 pm

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