Shoan Lo x Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2026

Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show March 2026
​- Gold Award for Botanical Moments

Design Brief - Site  C33k  Size: Approx 2x2m

This display interprets the theme of a kaleidoscope through geometry, movement, and shifting layers of light. Gold-painted triangular forms extend outward in multiple directions, creating a fragmented structure that suggests reflection and transformation—like patterns constantly changing within a turning lens.
Dried rain deer wattle, also rendered in gold, threads through the framework, softening the angular lines with intricate, organic detail. It evokes the delicate complexity of repeating motifs that appear and dissolve in a kaleidoscope.
Set against a royal blue background, that gives depth and intensity, allowing the gold elements to shimmer with contrast. Fresh materials: white gypsophila offers lightness and space; red gloriosa brings energy and a sense of unfolding movement; and yellow dancing lady orchids add a playful, dancing quality to the composition.
Balancing structure with spontaneity, the work invites the viewer to shift their perspective. As the angles and layers realign from different viewpoints, new visual relationships emerge—capturing the transient beauty and ever-changing nature of a kaleidoscope.

​(Photo by Dr Shoso Shimbo)

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Shoan's Ikebana won First Place at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2025

(At the Natio Botanical Moments - Site C23f)

Wa Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2024

First, we would like to sincerely thank our special guests/sponsors/collaborators for their invaluable support in making the Wa Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2024 a phenomenal success.

Shoan's display at the 
Melbourne International Flower ​and Garden Show 2024
"Star Dust Bridge"

Shoan's display at the
​Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2023 (Site C28G)
- "A Moment in Time - The Melting Hourglasses"

​​Will time stop and freeze if the symbol of time - The Hourglass- melts and its sand escape ?  

Inspired by Dali's "Persistence of Memory (1931), Shoan wonders if time will stop when its iconic symbol slowly melts away like Dali's clock in the dream wold.  

Size: 2.4m x 2m x 2.4m deep

Materials used:
​Red painted cane, Gypsophila, Hydrangeas, Oncidium (Dancing lady orchids)
 

Shoan's display at the
​Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2022
​"Celebration - Hanabi - The Fireworks"

Indeed, fireworks have an enchanting way of uniting people in celebration, transcending language barriers and cultural boundaries. As the day turns into night, the anticipation builds, and a collective sense of wonder fills the air. So let us revel in the magic of fireworks, for they are the universal language of celebration. With each dazzling burst, they kindle a sense of wonder and remind us that, despite our differences, we are bound together by our shared human experience.

Size: 2.5m wide x 1.4m high x 2m deep

Materials used:
​Red painted cane, Gypsophila, Gloriosa ​

​Wa: Melbourne Ikebana Festival 2022 Thank You
See you in September 2024!! 

The annual event was cancelled last year due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. And we are coming back in 2022 with Exhibition, Performance, Dinner Show, Demonstration and Workshops for all AGES!!! It was such a great weekend and a big thank you to more than 70+ ceramic artists and ikebanists who exhibited that made it so successful!

Fill your life with flowers in 2024!

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