Shen Jiawei: Behind the Canvas
“My oil painting Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland was created in 1974. Its extraordinary fate turned it into a cultural artifact that encapsulated the narrative of the Cultural Revolution.”
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Lindy Lee: The Market Gardener and the Restaurateur
His gaze meets ours, deep and clear and steady. In his face I see sadness, resignation, determination. Resilience. Tiy Sing, a Kogerah market gardener who prospered enough to buy his own truck, is hoping to make a trip home to China and, with this document, be allowed re-entry to Australia on his return…
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Shen Shaomin: I stand a little higher than Socrates
Shen Shaomin: I stand a little higher than Socrates” is a recent interview piece published on The Beacon (September 2022).
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Shen Jiawei on SMH: From Mao to Now by John McDonald
John McDonald’s essay, “Shen Jiawei: From Mao to Now” was published in the Sydney Morning Herald (November 2010).
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From Mao to Now
Hong Fu’s art career started from painting large-scale Mao’s portrait in public spaces in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in China. From Mao to now, his art career has been a long and zig-zagging journey. However, one thing has never changed. Hong Fu said, “I believe in hope. My painting is a search for hope”.
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Qin Han: I am a Pig in Another World
The most moving work in the world is often conceived from the simplest, silliest idea. Examples are all over the place in Han Qin’s works. She spent a whole year collecting daily newspapers, to apologize for the time she neglected; she moved her bed to the Pierre Cardin Art Center in Paris, …
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Ruth Ju-shih Li: Yet, with every ending there begins anew
She use to spend almost 300 hours for an exhibition, creating an artwork born to be destroyed out of 70 kg of ceramic clay. During the exhibition, the unfired work looked different each day as the temperature and humidity changed slightly: shrinking and disintegrating. Just like lives, as time passed, it gradually returned to become dust.
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Rose Wong: Should I be a good girl, or challenge and annoy people?
What does a grenade look like from the inside? Before I met Rose Wong, I could not have imagined that anyone would depict war in a language that is sweet, juicy, and almost seductive.
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