A Conversation with Naoko Uemoto
Naoko Uemoto’s practice was nurtured on unceded Whadjuk land, primarily by Boorloo’s local improvisatory scene. Across sound, performance and installation, she’s drawn to exploratory art practices that build sustainable care and curiosity — work that offers a gentle invitation for collective listening, feeling, and imagining.
For Flash. Issue 03 — a Project See & B × Jean Marie Film collaboration giving twenty creatives second-hand film cameras and total freedom — Naoko shot foraging, folding, and holding time at audible edge on a Konica Z-up 115e.
The work is created from two images taken at Audible Edge Festival — “a very special, strange and sweet few days of exploratory music in boorloo.” It’s also her first time approaching photography as an art practice, and sharing it beyond a casual Instagram post.
As Naoko writes:
“I’ve found it to be a really fun time inside my head, with thoughts about liveness and time stretching wanderousness that I love in sound and listening, and finding its parallels in this static medium.
I especially loved these images because they also hold some of my favourite people in their blurry, motion-full forms, mid-musicking.”
More from Naoko at @naoko.uemoto.
Flash. — Exhibition & Issue 03 Launch
Flash. Issue 03 One-week-only exhibition:
19 — 25 January 2026
10am to 4pm daily
Terrace Greenhouse Gallery
223 South Terrace, South Fremantle, WA
Free entry
Project See & B is dedicated to amplifying under-represented voices in the creative industry. Issue 03 was made possible thanks to the support of The Blackbird Foundation.
