Chinese Australia

Posted: 16 Feb 2012

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.

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.

Where: Ausin Tung Gallery, 164 High Street, Prahran, Melbourne

Exhibition Opening: 6-8pm, Wednesday 15th February

Panel Discussion: between the curator and artists on Thursday 16th February from 6-7pm. All are invited to attend.

Exhibition runs Wednesday 15 February until Friday 10 March, 2012

Image: Song Ling, Beauty and the Beast 2, acrylic on canvas, 140 x 110cm, 2011. Courtesy of the Artist and Niagara Galleries.

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