PROJECT ROOM : SHIN KOYAMA

Exhibition Dates : 4 - 16 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 5 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm

My practice brings together contemporary arrangements of traditional Japanese motifs and personal memories, often expressed through drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics. 

This exhibition holds a deeply personal meaning: an offering to Cory and to our family. Nine years have passed since the death of my wife, the writer Cory Taylor. As her final book, Dying: A Memoir, now takes shape on stage in Melbourne—a city I cherish—I wish to share my own work in parallel, as a gesture of remembrance and gratitude. 

I imagine Cory living just beyond a mountain, in a nearby village. That image sustains me, as does the memory of our thirty-three years together. 

Through these works, I hope to honour her presence, to let Cory, and all who visit this exhibition, see what I continue to create. This is a tribute of love and thanks for the life we shared.