Exhibits

Learn more about our featured exhibits

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  With rings on their fingers and bells on their toes
  Scattered troughout the exhibition are rings from the collection of Megan Rose. These oversized pieces sparkle as the light hits them. There is a profusion of…
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  Shojo Bibliotheca
  At the center of our work is the figure of the reading girl. For the UTAS version of our exhibition, we were able to take advantage…
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  Tea dressed as Barbara from Genshin, by Kitkat Photography: Photoshoot in Fryer Library
  Tea (Instagram @te.a.cos) dressed as Barabara from Genshin, by Kitkat Photography (Instagram @ kitkat_photog) As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition in 2021, we…
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  Book of early translations of Japanse fairy tales, by Kitkat Photography
  As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition in 2021, we invited cosplayers and lovers of Japanese fashion cultures, as well as photographers, to…
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  Tea dressed as Barbara from Genshin, by Kitkat Photography: Photoshoot in Fryer Library
  Tea (Instagram @te.a.cos) dressed as Barabara from Genshin, by Kitkat Photography (Instagram @ kitkat_photog) As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition in 2021,…
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  Blythe
  Blythe doll ‘Gillian’s Dream’ 2018Collection of Megan Rose In my dreams, I find myself in Ginza. The swan boats, the beautiful restaurants, the glittering lights as…
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  looking at the gothic shojo
  excerpt from “Girls in Lace Dresses: the Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and Fashion” by Emerald L King, Lucy Fraser in New Directions in…
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  Like a teatray in the sky
  The walls of the University of Queensland version of Maidens Sans Frontiers were papered with a collection of postcards, fliers, and photocopies that I have collected…
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  What is shojo? 箪笥　장화, 홍련　
  In one of our exit survey responses (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2TWK6S9 we will pass your feedback on to our sponsors – The Japan Foundation Sydney, The University of Queensland…
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  Karrie wearing Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography: Photoshoot in Fryer Library
  Karrie (Instagram @ tangled.larper) in Lolita fashion brand Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography (Instagram @ kitkat_photog) As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition…
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  Karrie wearing Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography: Photoshoot in Fryer Library
  Karrie (Instagram @ tangled.larper) in Lolita fashion brand Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography (Instagram @ kitkat_photog) As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition…
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  Karrie wearing Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography: Photoshoot in Fryer Library
  Karrie (Instagram @ tangled.larper) in Lolita fashion brand Mary Magdalene, by Kitkat Photography (Instagram @ kitkat_photog) As part of the closing events of the physical exhibition…
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  Oscar’s Dress
  Some of you may be familiar with Ikeda Riyoko’s Rose of Versailles and it’s cross dressing, swash buckling hero,  Oscar François de Jarjayes. Oscar is the…
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  Queenie Chan’s Borderless Shojo
  Queenie Chan is a Hong Kong-born Australian comic artist. Her trilogy, The Dreaming, published by TOKYOPOP (2005) is held in the Fryer Library at UQ. It…
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  Takehisa Yumeji Bookplate
  Bookplate featuring art by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934), whose paintings influenced shōjo (girls’) art and manga styles. This was found in the UQ Fryer library, part of…
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  Collectible tin featuring Tezuka Osamu’s Princess Knight / 手塚治虫「リボンの騎士」
  Collectible tin featuring Tezuka Osamu’s Princess Knight / 手塚治虫「リボンの騎士」(Emily Wakeling)
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  Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service by Nadia
  Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service by Nadia. Photography by Tessu. Cosplay images are displayed onscreen at the UQ Central Library exhibition. This image of Nadia was taken at…