VERNISSAGE COCKTAIL PARTY - SŌMU + ORII - ÉQUILIBRE INSTABLE

Join us for the relaunch of Australia's most disruptive commercial art projects, Grau Projekt. Relocating from around the corner in Clifton Hill we are celebrating our new home with a new body of work by the collaborative tea duo, Somū ( Adam Wojinkisi ) and Akitsu Orii.

Their new exhibition ÉQUILIBRE INSTABLE will feature painted works, ceramics and a live performance.

The famous TRINK AUTOMAT cocktail machine is back and ready to issue a new Matcha Margarita Cocktail by Matt Bax. Non alcoholic options are also available, including a SAMU Suki Grade Bowl of zero % Matcha cocktail.

Your ticket includes a complimentary drink (trink) from the machine. Please present a printout of your ticket to access the TRINK AUTOMAT.

Adam Sōmu Wojciński (b 1980 Australia)

Lives in Marseille, France

Adam is a tea artist, teacher, and cultural bridge-builder whose work unites practice, research, and creative expression through the Japanese Way of Tea. A direct student of the 16th Grand Master of the Ueda Sōko-ryū, he founded the school’s first global shachū—a community of practitioners connected across continents.His scholarship includes translations of key historical and new texts. In 2022 he was appointed to the Junior Board in recognition of his contributions to the Ueda School. While deeply rooted and respected within tradition, Adam serves the fringe where tea meets contemporary art, ethics, and

cultural renewal. A polycultural teaist, Adam embodies fueki ryūkō—eternal essence; changing form—where harmony is the foundation, practice the work, no-borders the ethic, and beauty the language of tea. From the formality of the tearoom to the bustle of the marketplace, Adam’s tea is a still point in the turning world: a reminder of the peace to be found within oneself and with others.

Akitsu Orii (b. 1978 JAPAN )

Lives in Marseille, France

Akitsu was raised in Nara, Japan’s ancient capital, and moved to Paris in 2001 to pursue a career in flute performance. Initially focused on contemporary repertoire, she later turned to early music,

drawn by the search for a lost aesthetic and dialogue with authenticity and cultural belonging. In 2008, she began practicing chanoyu, the Japanese Way of Tea, an art offering a path back to her origins and calm within complexity. This led her to kōdō, the Way of Incense, where scent, like music, evokes what words cannot. Since relocating to Marseille in 2019, clay has become her primary medium.