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

Illuminating aluminium

A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.

Sally Gearon

Italian Renaissance Alive on the Gold Coast

The beachside charm of the Gold Coast is getting the Renaissance treatment with the region’s major gallery, Home of the Arts (HOTA), exhibiting not “old master” paintings per se, but a series of multifaceted, immersive projections of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and Caravaggio, among many others.

Barnaby Smith

Trevor Yeung captures the feeling of small intimacies

Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.

Isabella Trimboli

The rise of atmospheric painter Clarice Beckett

Working en plein air, Clarice Beckett’s tonalist paintings capture not only the likeness of a place, but how it felt to be there. Revisit our preview of the historical artist, who is now showing at Cairns Art Gallery with work from the 1920s and 30s.

Briony Downes

The systems that connect us with Dana Harris and Peter Atkins

In their first joint exhibition together, the couple Dana Harris and Peter Atkins share their separate three-year-long projects made during the Melbourne lockdowns, delivering a shared interest in geometry and colour in SUPERsystems at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Andrew Stephens

Sovereignty was never ceded: Protest, resistance and resilience with proppaNOW

In marking 20 years of the proppaNOW artist collective, Tony Albert, Megan Cope, Gordon Hookey, Lily Eather, and Warraba Weatherall gathered for an incredibly insightful and honest conversation about contemporary Aboriginal art in Australia today.

proppaNOW