REVIEW: Breaking the Silence | Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia
National museums serve as custodians of collective memory. They preserve, interpret, and present stories that shape a nation’s cultural identity. The National Museum of Australia (NMA) fulfills this role powerfully through Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, on display in the museum’s Focus Gallery. Though modest in scale, this exhibition and accompanying publication reveals a […]
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Tagged artists of mixed descent, Chinese artists, Christian Thompson, Damien Shen, Gordon Hookey, Guangzhou Library, Jason Wing, Jenna Lee, Lansheng Zhang, Lloyd Gawura Hornsby, Michael Laing, Museum of Chinese Australian History Victoria, National Museum of Australia, Our Story, Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, Vernon Ah Kee, Zhou Xiaoping
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Light Now
In this year’s Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery will present a new exhibition Light Now featuring works from three Melbourne-based artists: Jenna Lee, Diego Ramirez, and Meagan Streader. The artists consider light’s physical, psychological, and conceptual properties as well as capacity to carry layered meanings. Jenna Lee’s new works extend upon her recent explorations of First […]
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Jenna Lee
Up until recently this process was applied almost exclusively to copies of the book “Aboriginal Words and Place Names.” whereby I would tear, pulp, weave and burn the pages, healing and transforming them into new objects of cultural beauty and pride. The homogenising of books filled with words ripped from their connection to people and […]
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Tagged Beneath the surface (of the billabong), Jenna Lee, MARS Gallery
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