Shen Jiawei
Shen Jiawei was born in Shanghai, China in 1948. He migrated to Australia in 1989 and currently lives and works in Sydney. Shen works in traditional oil painting and portraiture and works within the established academic style of painting. During the Cultural Revolution all art schools were closed so Shen was largely self-taught, becoming recognised as an artist in the mid 1970s. One of his works, Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland (1974), was shown in Guggenheim Museum, both in New York and Bilbao, in the the China: 5000 Years exhibition, 1998. He moved to Australia in 1989. In the first two years he had to draw portrait sketches for tourists in Darling Harbour to survive, but used this opportunity to research portraiture and became an experienced portraitist. Since then he has done many portrait commissions in Australia and overseas.
Asian Australian Studies Research Network
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