Mikio
Kimura

Born of Japanese, Irish, and Dharrawal heritage and raised Catholic in a globalised, postmodern age, Mikio grew up inside overlapping traditions. Each with its own myths, silences, and moral demands, learning early to question what I had been given. Arriving late to the great philosophical conversation, Mikio sank into the vertigo of postmodernism, where meaning fractures and the self begins to thin. Through the discipline of art, he learned how to see his way back, clearly enough to remain in the world. Through disciplined, fevered mark-making, Mikio seeks the beauty and absurdity of human experience, stories that honour frailty, endurance, and the strange hope we carry, even as each of us stands at the centre of our own universe, haunted by the unanswered presence of others.