Yuria Okamura

  • Yuria Okamura is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting and installation. Inspired by animism and herbalism, she conflates botanical imagery with geometric forms derived from religious symbolism used in architecture and decoration across cultures.
    Combining works on paper with wall drawings, her work enshrines nature within imagined architecture.

    Okamura holds an MFA (Research) from the University of Melbourne and a BFA (Honours) from RMIT University. She has been awarded Australia Council Grants, Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship, Ursula Hoff Institute Drawing Award, LaTrobe Art Institute Writer’s Block Commission, Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, RMIT Honours Travelling Endowment Scholarship, and recently shortlisted for National Works on Paper Award, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Award and Waverly Art Prize.
    Okamura has been selected to participate in local and international residencies such as Sanskriti Kendra Residency (India), The Studios at MASS MoCA (USA), Abbotsford Convent Studio Residency (Australia), Bayside City Council Residency (Australia) and Takt Artist Residency (Germany). She has exhibited her work extensively at public, commercial and artist-run galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Daine Singer, NotFair Art Fair, Incinerator Gallery, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, La Trobe Art Institute, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Anna Pappas Gallery, Dutoit Gallery (USA), Five Walls, Tributary Projects (Canberra), Kunstraum Tapir (Germany), Langford 120, Seventh Gallery, Japan Foundation Gallery (Sydney) and Mølla På Grim (Norway).

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Healer: Malva Preissiana
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Healer: Malva Preissiana, 2023

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
24.5 x 18 x 1 cm
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Healer: Carpobrotus Glaucescens

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Healer: Carpobrotus Glaucescens, 2023

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22.5 x 16 x 0.7 cm
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Healer: Correa Alba

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Healer: Correa Alba, 2023

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
23 x 16 x 1 cm
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Healer: Prostanthera Rotundifolia

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Healer: Prostanthera Rotundifolia, 2023

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
23.5 x 16.5 x 1 cm
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Healer: Evolvulus Alsinoides
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Healer: Evolvulus Alsinoides, 2024

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
24 x 19.5 x 1 cm
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Healer: Eremophila Maculata
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Healer: Eremophila Maculata, 2024

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
24.5 x 20 x 0.7 cm
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Healer: Schenkia Australis

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Healer: Schenkia Australis, 2024

glazed stoneware, wall mounted
37.5 x 29 x 2 cm
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Healer: Eucalyptus Camaldulensis
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Healer: Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, 2024

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
38 x 29 x 2 cm
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Healer: Schenkia Australis (Copy)

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Healer: Daviesia Latifolia, 2024

glazed porcelain, wall mounted
28.5 x 28.5 x 2 cm
$ 1500 or $ 150 over 10 months with Art Money

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Offerings (for Prithvi)

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Offerings (for Prithvi), 2021

acrylic and pen on paper, framed
120 x 95 cm (paper size)
131 x 107 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 4,300 or $ 430 over 10 months with Art Money

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Inner Garden

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Inner Garden, 2021

acrylic and pen on paper
78 x 65 cm (paper size)
86.5 x 73.5 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 2,800 or $ 280 over 10 months with Art Money

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Invocation #3

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Invocation #3, 2021

acrylic and ink on paper
50 x 50 cm (paper size)
58.5 x 58.5 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 1,900 or $ 190 over 10 months with Art Money

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Recollection #2

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Recollection #2, 2017

acrylic and pen on paper, framed
75 x 65 cm (paper size)
84.5 x 69.5 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 2,400 or $ 240 over 10 months with Art Money

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Recollection #1

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Recollection #1, 2017

acrylic and pen on paper, framed
75 x 65 cm (paper size)
framed: 83.5 x 69 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 2,400 or $ 240 over 10 months with Art Money

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Study: Invocation #2

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Study: Invocation #2, 2017

acrylic and pen on paper, framed
26 x 26 cm (paper size)
framed: 34 x 34 x 4 cm (frame size)
$ 500 or $ 50 over 10 months with Art Money

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Invocation (Songs and Tales) #1 & #2

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Invocation (Songs and Tales) #1 & #2, pair, 2017

acrylic and pen on paper, framed separately
26 x 27 cm (paper size each)
34 x 84 x 4cm (frame size each)
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