Capturing Light has now been moved to Byron Bay - Opening 6pm - Friday 30 March, 2012

Retrospect Galleries artist Mari Hirata was a recent feature in Elle online in The Art of the Shoe by Michael Solomon.  Mari has featured shoes as the main focus of her artworks for many years with great success.

"...Street artist Galo Canote just painted a new mural for Christian Louboutin.  See more sole-ful works by Warhol, van Gogh, Mari Hirata and others..."

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Click here to see Mari Hirata's online artist gallery at Retrospect Galleries.

* Mari Hirata artworks will be on display during the Gold Coast Fashion Week - February 8-12 at our Broadbeach gallery on the Gold Coast.

Photographer Mari Hirata was featured in this months Harper's Bazaar magazine. What a fantatsic article...

"When you hear the name of a new exhibition is Wild Soles, it's reasonable to assume the work will be by Mari Hirata.  The Gold Coaster is stepping into the art limelight on the topic of high-heeled shoes, the basis of her work for nearly a decade... "

Marina Saint Martin interviewed Mari Hirata in 'hands and heels' for the Artworld page in the Paradise magazine in the Gold Coast Bulletin.  Showing selected works from Hirata's solo show 'Wild Soles' opening this Friday, 14th October at 6pm at Retrospect Galleries Broadbeach.

...Also for this show, 30-year-old Hirata is leaving her former comfort zone and presenting her first series of sculptural pieces... "

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Wild Soles by Mari Hirata opens at Retrospect Galleries Broadbeach at 6pm Friday 14th October.

Exhibition runs until 27 October.

To view exhibition online click link here - Wild Soles by Mari Hirata