About

Midori Furze (Sydney, Australia)

Midori was born in Japan. She has loved drawing and painting ever since she was a little girl. Her first oil painting was a still life when she was 8 years old. She came to Australia in 1989 and currently lives in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Since 2002 Midori has been actively participating in various art exhibitions in Australia. She has won many awards, including two first prizes in the Figurative and Contemporary sections at Northern Suburbs A&H Society Art exhibition in 2006.

She loves music and she often translates her love of music into art. On her canvases she paints her dreams and concepts of love and music.

Midori likes acrylic and oil painting. Recently she started using old make up products for drawing. She ran a successful workshop, “Make up Your Mind”, at Manly Library in May 2009. It was hosted by creativemums.com.au. More than 70 mothers and daughters attended the workshop and enjoyed drawing with old make up products.
In September 2009, a “Make up Your Mind” art exhibition has taken part in the Manly Arts Festival 09.
She has also organised a “Womanly” T-shirt exhibition at Manly Beach with Angela van Boxtel. The exhibitions took part in the Manly Arts Festival 09 and a spectacular display of more than 100 t-shirts on a long cloth line has appeared on the beach.
She writes and shares her knowledge on art magazines. Her articles were on “Fine Art & Decorative Painting” Vol.16 No.10, Vol.16 No.11, Vol.17 No.2 and Vol.17 No.3 in 2009.

Selected exhibitions and Galleries
2009 “Art for Goat” Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2009 Gallery Cats Sydney, Art Sydney 09, Moore Park, Sydney
2009 Solo exhibition, “Jazz in the Air” Manly Library, Manly
2009 “Womanly” T-shirt exhibition, Manly Beach
2009 “Make up Your Mind” Café Chill, Manly
2009 “Cosmopolitan, Baileys or Midori?”, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2008 Solo Exhibition ”Always Keep Music in Mind”, Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
2007 “Lumiere” Glen Street Gallery, Belrose, NSW
2007 Solo Exhibition “Jazushi” Restaurant Jazushi, Surry Hills, NSW
2005 “Sixcircles” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW
2003 “Infusion” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW
2002 “North Exposure” Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale, NSW

Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
Art Sydney, Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park
Artfocus Gallery, Brookvale
Glen Street Gallery, Belrose
St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda VIC
Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society Exhibitions, St Ives/Gordon
G26 Art Show, Milsons Point / Northbridge
Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Northern Expressions Art Exhibitions, Sydney
Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst
Art for Goats, Sydney
Pittwater Community Arts, Exhibition, Avalon
North Shore Art Society Art Exhibitions, Manly / Collaroy / Mona Vale
Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater Exhibitions, Warriewood / Manly / Mona Vale
Sorlies Restaurant, Belrose
Currabubula Art Show, Currabubula, NSW
Parliament House, Sydney
GIG Gallery, Glebe
Red Door Creative, Dural
MLC Gallery, Ultimo
The Painters Gallery, Mona Vale
Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney Show Ground, Homebush
Singleton Art Prize, Singleton NSW
Seaforth Art Show, Seaforth / Balgowlah
Mosman Art Market, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman
Northern Suburbs A&H Society Art Exhibition, St Ives
Broken Bay Art Exhibition, Newport

Press / Articles / Interviews
2009 “Fine Art & Decorative Paintings” magazine Vol17 No3Dec
2009 “Fine Art & Decorative Paintings” magazine Vol 17 No2 Nov
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Sep 25,
2009 Sam and Anthony, Northern Beaches Community Radio FM 88.7 Sep 13,
2009 “Fine Art & Decorative Paintings” magazine Vol 16 No11Sep
2009 “Fine Art & Decorative Paintings” magazine Vol16 No10 Aug
2009 “Art Beat” Bree Ashwin, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Aug 17,
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 Aug 6,
2009 Jane Arakawa, North Shore Community Radio FM 99.3 June 3,
2009 Barbara Shorter, Northern Beaches Community Radio FM 88.7 May 20
2009 Sue Hoban, Manly Daily, “Profile” May 19
2009 Jenta, Manly Daily, Lava, Sunday Telegraph
2008 Sydney Morning Herald, “Spectrum”
2008 Sonia Komaravalli, Ciao Magazine
2008 Mai Igarashi, Nichigo Press, November
2008 Innerwest Courier, November
2007 Daily Telegraph, October

Email: midorifurze@gmail.com