Biography
Jolanta Ewart is a Polish-Australian mokuhanga artist whose work has been selected for exhibition at multiple International Mokuhanga Conferences. She exhibited at the IMC juried international exhibition in Nara, Japan, in 2021, and at the Oceania exhibition at the IMC in Echizen in 2024, demonstrating sustained engagement with the international mokuhanga community over multiple conference cycles.
Her dual Polish-Australian heritage places her at an interesting cultural intersection within the mokuhanga world, where the technique has been adopted by artists from diverse backgrounds who find common ground in the water-based woodblock printing tradition.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺Australia
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Jolanta Ewart is a Polish-Australian mokuhanga artist whose work has been selected for exhibition at multiple International Mokuhanga Conferences. She exhibited at the IMC juried international exhibition in Nara, Japan, in 2021, and at the Oceania exhibition at the IMC in Echizen in 2024, demonstrating sustained engagement with the international mokuhanga community over multiple conference cycles.
Jolanta Ewart's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Jolanta Ewart is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.