Biography
Yvonne Hering is an Australian mokuhanga artist who has engaged deeply with the international mokuhanga community through both residency and exhibition participation. In 2024, she was a resident artist in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Advanced Program D in Echizen, Japan, where she studied advanced mokuhanga techniques under Japanese master printers in a setting surrounded by the centuries-old washi papermaking traditions of Fukui Prefecture.
Hering's work was also included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) in Echizen, where she was selected for the Oceania regional exhibition. Her dual participation in both the MI-LAB residency and the IMC exhibition in the same year reflects a serious commitment to the mokuhanga medium.
She is part of the established Australian mokuhanga community, one of the most active groups of mokuhanga practitioners in the Oceania region, connected to the international network through the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA).
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺Australia
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Yvonne Hering is an Australian mokuhanga artist who has engaged deeply with the international mokuhanga community through both residency and exhibition participation. In 2024, she was a resident artist in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Advanced Program D in Echizen, Japan, where she studied advanced mokuhanga techniques under Japanese master printers in a setting surrounded by the centuries-old washi papermaking traditions of Fukui Prefecture.
Yvonne Hering'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.
Yvonne Hering 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.