University of Western Sydney, Australia-China Institute

The Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture is positioning itself as a hub and national resource centre for arts and cultural exchange between Australia and China and across the Sinosphere, and for collaborative action in the arts and cultural fields.

The Institute will enhance existing exchanges between the Western Sydney University and partner universities overseas, particularly in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It launches a range of programs in enhancing and promoting cultural and arts exchanges and actively engages with local communities in contributing to a cohesive multicultural society through arts and cultural activities.

Located in one of the most ethnically diverse urban centres of Australia, IAC will have great local significance in building a new multicultural urban society, and it will harness local support and engagement in its programs.

Ground floor, EA Building, Room EA.G.13,

University of Western Sydney, Australia-China Institute

Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus, Parramatta NSW, Australia

02 9685 9943

www.westernsydney.edu.au/iac/exhibitions2

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University of Western Sydney, Australia-China Institute

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

A conversation between past and present

An exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane sheds a new light on Brisbane’s history, presenting a significant historical archive of photography alongside contemporary artists responding to the original source material.

Art Guide Australia

Ivan Cheng on innocence lost

Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.

Anador Walsh

Stitching the self

Curated by Lee Kinsella, Stuffed, Bolstered and Upholstered—on now at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery—looks at how woven and fibre objects align with the human form, encompassing the practices of over thirty artists working across textiles, painting, ceramics, sculpture and installation.

Briony Downes