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Kumo-bako (Ken Meyer)

Quick Response Residency

Quick Response Residency

Kumo-bako (Ken Meyer) will use his Quick Response residency to develop new works that merge light and sound into interactive environments, exploring their relationship to our inner worlds. By amplifying these interactions through technology to create immersive spaces, he seeks to create experiences that challenge the ways in which we currently engage with, and view, the world.

About the artist

Based in Walyalup (Fremantle), Kumo–bako (Ken Meyer) is a German-born artist of German/Japanese descent, working across digital and physical mediums. With a background in graphic design and photography, his practice integrates digital media, sculpture, projection, light and sound to create immersive, contemplative installations. His latest work Where the Light Rests, was presented as part of the Fremantle Biennale 2025: Sanctuary program. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Diffusion, Cheap Tongue Gallery, Fremantle (2025); Interference, Current Gallery, Fremantle (2024) and Relic, Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Perth (2025). He holds a double Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University. In early 2025, he was selected for The Lab, a Perth Festival initiative supporting a small cohort of early-career practitioners through workshops, critical discussions, artist talks and mentorship with local and international creatives.


Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors.