Painter, born in 1962 in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1969 Hagiwara’s family moved to Tokyo and it wasn’t until 1980 that she returned to live in Australia.
Between 1993 and 1994 Hagiwara studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and from 1995 to 1998 she studied with Bela Ivani in Sydney.
In 2006 Hagiwara won the Waverly Watercolour Art Prize and in 2004 she was awarded the Newnham Pring Memorial Prize in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Hagiwara has also won the Works on Paper Prize in the Waverley Art Prize in 2002, The Watercolour Prize in the Drummoyne Municipal Council Art Society Annual Art Award and the Works on Paper Prize in the North Sydney Art Prize both in 1998.
In 2007 Hagiwara was selected to show in the Salon des Refuse at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney. She is also frequently selected to exhibit in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Writers:

Downer, Stella

Date written:

2007

Last updated:

2011