Junko Hagiwara b. 1962

  • Artist (Painter)
Contemporary painter, lives and works in Sydney. Hagiwara spent a number of years living in Japan before returning to Australia. She is a frequent exhibitor in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and in 2007 Hagiwara was selected to show in the Salon des Refuse at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, NSW.
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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

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Related stub people
  • Ivani, Bela (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW (associate of)
Related recognitions
  • 1998 Works on Paper Prize, North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney, NSW (received)
  • 1998 Watercolour Prize, Drummoyne Municipal Council Art Society Annual Art Award, Sydney, NSW (received)
  • Waverley Art Prize (received)
  • Works on Paper Prize, Waverley Art Prize (received)
  • Newnham Pring Prize, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales (received)
  • 2006 Waverly Watercolour Art Prize, Sydney, NSW (received)
Related events
  • Peace Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • North Sydney Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Drummoyne Municipal Art Society Annual Art Award (exhibited at)
  • Solo Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Sulman Prize (exhibited at)
  • Pring Watercolour Prize (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Objective (exhibited at)
  • Waverley Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Wynne Prize (exhibited at)
  • Salon des Refuse (exhibited at)