NEW EXHIBITION - Chinese Australia - Australia China Art Foundation (Melb) [09.02.2012]
Image on left: Song Ling- Beauty and the Beast 2, acrylic on canvas- 140 x 110cm- 2011 ‘Courtesy of the Artist and Niagara Galleries’
CHINESE AUSTRALIA
Exhibition Opening 6-8pm, Wednesday 15 February Closing on Friday 10 March
164 High Street, Prahran, Melbourne
This group show brings together eleven prominent Australian artists of Chinese heritage whose work has not before been shown together. The exhibition is a diverse collection of works of artists from a common background and explores how their experience in Australia has influenced their art.
The exhibition will be opened by Aaron Seeto, Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, Australia’s peak national body for contemporary Asian art and culture.
The Australian China Art Foundation warmly invites you to join us for the opening.
Artists Pei Pei He, Song Ling, Zhou Xiaoping, Kordelya Zhansui Chi, John Young, Lindy Lee, Chonggang Du, Owen Leong, Cyrus Tang, Zhong Chen and Robin Eley comment on issues such as physical identity and duality of culture, dislocation and belonging, and loss and renewal within the context of their Chinese heritage.
The exhibition is curated by Venita Poblocki.
The opening will be followed by a panel discussion between the curator and artists on Thursday 16th February from 6-7pm. All are invited to attend.