Profile

Kara Yamaguchi

Artist   Researcher  Photographer  Tour Guide

Kara is an Australian with Japanese/American roots and has nearly 20 years of experience living and working in Japan as a teacher, artist, tour guide, writer, researcher and translator. She is currently the only person in the world researching Japan's lost super-civilization and bringing this crucial information about what is possibly the world's oldest civilization to the rest of the world in English!

Imagine a world without art and creativity!

I've always thought it was ingenious how you can arrange the letters of "earth"  into both "heart" and "art". Art and creativity is for everyone....not just artists! I have seen so many faces transformed into ones of pure joy by simply sitting down with some beads and fabric and creating something amazing and fun. Art inspires where words cannot always reach. It is this place I hope to connect with through my love of color, beads, fabric and photography and share what all artists know....there is nothing that lifts the spirit more when we seek to have fun and simply create from the heart.

                         Manyoshu costumes, Gallery Koto, Kyoto 2011

ART ACTIVITIES

1995 3rd Seto Fashion Contest First Round

1995 Design accepted in Edo and Fashion Contest

1996 Work selected for Photo Category, Art Box Grand Prix

1996 Artist in Profile, Azabu Craft Museum

1998  Member of Studio NOPE, exhibitions and costume/bead workshops for children 

1999 Group Exhibition Seven Color Heaven  Gallery Fresca

2000  Solo Exhibition  Dreamtime , Gallery Wa

2001 Work selected for Photo Category, Art Box Grand Prix

2003-04  Workshops for children at RBR Art School

2003「Star of Lemuria」 selected in Japan Bead Grand Prix Contest

2004「Spirit of Mu」 selected in Beads Art Japan Competition 

2004-05 Photographs used for 「Shi no Kusuribako」,Yomiuri Weekly magazine

2005 Spirit of the Kami exhibition sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Australia

         Interviewed on ABC radio

2007  Manuscript selected publication under the 2007 Bungeisha Book Visual

          Award

2008  "Spirit of Mu" published by Bungeisha Publishing  Photography and spiritual

           essay based on Japan's lost civilization

2009   The Rainbow Goddess Exhibition  Les Trois Maisons gallery, Kyoto

2010    Lost Civilization of Japan Exhibition   NHK TV gallery Kyoto, Les Trois

            Maisons gallery Kyoto, Cafe Dolce Gallery Tokyo

2011    Ancient Love Poems from Japan, Manyoshu Exhibition

            Honenin Temple, Kyoto, Gallery Koto, Kyoto

2012   Ancient Love Poems of Japan, Manyoshu Exhibition

           Kyoto International Community House,  supported by the Japan Foundation
2013   Feature article on Kara's research into sacred sites in Japan featured in ANEMONE magazine

 * Please direct any inquiries about Kara's work to:    

                   kara_y12@hotmail.com