About
Yumemi is a multidisciplinary artist and youth arts worker based in nipaluna (Hobart), with a rapidly growing interest in community-based arts, education, and socially engaged practices.
Originally from Hiroshima, Japan, she completed her BFA at the Victorian College of the Arts and continues to develop her practice in Australia, which has been her home for over 15 years.
Experimenting with a wide range of materials, she explores tense relationships and subtle connotations of one as a resident of cultural gaps, while evoking a familiar yet foreign sense of longing, belonging and holding on. Treating her practice as a personal study of life’s continuity and ephemerality, her works hint that perhaps our memories, and in turn, the way we withhold history is as dynamically transitional as this world that we all inhabit.
Yumemi's works and collaborations are often process-driven, posing intimate offerings and intersections of memory, nostalgia, cultural practice and an emotional response to site.
Her current explorations focus on personal interventions of vulnerability, confrontation and reflection, that long to connect with a deeper sense of self.