Akio makigawa biography of rory

Akio Makigawa arrived in Perth from Japan in 1974 with the intention of working as a sail maker. Since boyhood, sailing had been his first love and he dreamt of one day owning a boat to sail around the world.

Makigawa had always enjoyed making paintings and working creatively, however he had not thought of making art a career. His first encounter with sculpture was through the Perth sculptor Tony Jones (born 1944) whom he met through a common interest in sailing.

He enrolled in the Claremont School of Art which had a focus on the study of sculpture - here he was introduced to the enormous possibilities within the realm of sculpture.

He continued his study of sculpture at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) and was influenced by the radical attitudes of Terry New and other expatriate British lecturers.

Makigawa was drawn to British sculpture more than any other as it was engaged in an attempt to free sculptural form from its de