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Eriko Takefuji
Local ResidentEriko at a Chado Workshop at Mitcham Community Centre in 2025
As a dedicated instructor of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony (Chado), one of Japan’s oldest and largest tea traditions, I also conducts workshops introducing the art and spirit of Chado to Australian audiences.
Across my work in traditional crafts, landscape design and tea ceremony, I am passionate about sharing the richness of Japanese culture and the essence of Japanese aesthetics with people in Australia.
TAKEFUJI
While the online boutique is the heart of TAKEFUJI, Eriko also participates in Japanese cultural events and markets held in Adelaide, creating opportunities for people to discover and experience the richness of Japanese craftsmanship.
Launched in 2026, TAKEFUJI LAWLER is a landscape design practice that explores how Japanese aesthetics can be expressed within the unique natural environment of Australia. Working alongside her husband Richard, whose background is in architectural design, TAKEFUJI LAWLER aims to create gardens that are not confined to the traditional Japanese garden style, but instead draw on the essence of Japanese aesthetics to create spaces that respond to both people and nature.
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Distinguished and Famous people from The Adelaide Coast
Adelaide's coast has been a home for scientists and explorers, as well as a setting for public art. These connections are to particular places along the metropolitan shoreline and its harbour suburbs.
🔬 Sir Douglas Mawson
Antarctic explorer and geologist Douglas Mawson lived at Brighton with his family and died at his home there in 1958. His working base was the University of Adelaide, which he joined as a lecturer in 1905. He led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14 and later became professor of geology and mineralogy. Brighton provided a coastal home for a scientist whose fieldwork took him to a very different sort of shore.
🧭 Captain Charles Sturt
Charles Sturt established his South Australian home at The Grange, the house that gave the coastal suburb its name. Born in India, he became known for expeditions along the Murray–Darling river system and into inland Australia. His journeys were difficult and sometimes disappointing: the inland sea he hoped to find remained elusive. He eventually returned to England and died there in 1869. The surviving Grange home provides a direct link with his family's life in Adelaide.
🎨 John Dowie
Sculptor John Dowie's connection with the coast is visible in his public work. His Tjilbruke monument at Kingston Park dates from 1972, while the Thomas & Co. Fountain in Port Adelaide dates from 1981. Dowie trained and later taught at the South Australian School of Art, producing sculptures for public places across Australia. These coastal commissions form part of a career that brought art into parks and streets, where encountering it requires no gallery ticket.
