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Portraits of my life: Tomono Wynn's story

In the 1970s Tomono Tadakuma rebelled against her traditional, patriarchal Japanese family and escaped to Adelaide to study print-making and painting.  In this exhibition, Tomono takes us on a remarkable journey through her life in Tokyo and Adelaide.  She displays a selection of her stunning artworks and ancestral objects including two beautiful kimonos, textiles and calligraphy tools that belonged to her father.

Tomono’s first impression of Australia dated from when she was a child in Tokyo.  She saw an image of a remote desert Aboriginal man lighting a fire.  To Tomono, as she grew up within the strict conventions expected of a young Japanese woman of samurai ancestry, Australia came to symbolise freedom. She first visited Australia, against her father’s wishes, in 1972 and so loved the place and people that she returned in 1973 on a student visa.  Thirty-eight years later, with a career and family of her own, she still lives in South Australia but travels back to Japan several times a year.  Tomono’s artworks show how she has merged her Japanese cultural heritage and family with her life and family in Australia.

The free exhibition is on display until late August 2012.