Japanese-born Australian designer Kyoko Hashimoto works across critical craft and design. With regard for environmentally sustainable practices, he creates objects that channel concern for existential threats posed by globalised resource extraction, and materials that dominate urban life: plastic, concrete, and fossil fuels.
Hashimoto exhibits new and recent works in Bioregional Bodies, made with locally sourced materials from the Sydney Basin, a bioregion characterised by the presence of sandstone, oyster shells for making concrete, and coal. Part of Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Kyoko Hashimoto, Coal Necklace, 2021, coal, oxidised sterling silver, 20 × 15 × 2cm. Photograph: Fred Kroh. Courtesy the artist, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney and JamFactory, South Australia
JamFactory, Adelaide
3 March to 1 May 2022
South Australia
