WE ARE ALL HERE NOW, HERE IN THE GALLERY!
Artists: COADY，Wan Hongwei，Joyce Huang，Pu Jie， Eugenia Lim，Chen Wei，Miao Xiaochun
Curated by: Jeremy Gales
Proudly sponsored by the Australia China Art Foundation (ACAF)
Opening 6.30pm Friday, 7th Oct
From 7th Oct to 23rd Oct, 2016
++High Tea & Art Talk++
3.30pm Saturday, 22nd Oct
Guest speaker: Eugenia Lim
The homogenization of culture taking place within the liberal west does not fully extend to that of the Eastern cannon, the reproduction of Western culture in the East is seldom seen outside of itself.
The ‘Aus-China art trail’ is the merging of these phenomena.
The Cosmopolitan plurality between each country is only visible on the surface, beneath, the differences are vast.
The works serve a purpose as a heuristic device.
The exhibition acts as an ephemeral space in which the viewer is able to openly explore. Individual beliefs conveyed through the work are reflective of cultural processes. The journey of discovery through making and viewing art is something that gives insight into both one’s own and others’ culture and beliefs.
THE EXHIBITION
“We are all here now, here in the gallery!” A temporal space in which the linkage between Australia and China through influence, occurrence, circumstance or interest bonds each of us.
The participating artists are all at different points in their careers.
- Eugenia Lim had her Yellow Peril series exhibited at ACAF’s Art Centre in Shanghai in March. Lim has also been shown at Tate Modern and most recently she was selected for the Beijing Studio Program Residency by 4A, Sydney.
- Joyce Huang is a visual artist from Shanghai working mostly with abstract painting and mixed media, in particular their relation to Taoist aesthetic.
- COADY is an Australian artist, her work deals with societal issues such as materialism and beauty, COADY’s practice is partially inspired by her childhood in Singapore.
- Pu Jie, blends traditional style with contemporary pop, addressing modernity and all it’s tropes.
- A member of the Chinese Artists Association, Wan Hongwei works with print, oil on canvas and works on paper.
- Chen Wei a very accomplished photographer from Bejing, Wei merges cinematography with realism to create truly unique photographs.
- New media artist Miao Xiaochun is renown for his unique style and progressive approach to digital art and photography.
Hongwei, Xaiochun, Jie and Wei have all been shown at the ACAF Art Centre in Shanghai over the course of many exhibitions.
- The curator , Jeremy Gales is the in-house curator for ACAF. Gales curates mixed media exhibitions which derive cultural facilitation in an international context.