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Official Opening: Wednesday, 1 July, 6pm

Special Event: Friday, 17 July, 5.30 to 7.30pm

Opener: Edmund Capon AM OBE, Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Another Silk Road

Curator: Jacqueline Clayton 

For centuries, the ancient network of trade routes known as the Silk Road was the conduit for trade in luxury goods and an agent in the transmission of technology, ideas and cultural traditions between powerful civilisations of Europe and those of the East, particularly China. Nowhere is the radical consequence of this interchange more evident than in ceramic production.

Over the last decade, three centuries after camels plied Silk Road routes, the international repercussions from Chinese developments in porcelain production are again striking, and impact not only the commercial arena, but also individual practice in fine art and ceramic design. 

Another Silk Road engages the metaphor of the Silk Road in considering the role and impact of cultural exchange between ceramic artists, with China as the key common axis.  Each of the participating artists has a connection to China and the work of each is shaped, or inflected, by the experience of working across cultures and in so doing, questions what it means to be “Chinese”.

Artists:

Ching-Yuan Chang (Taiwan)
Guang Hui Chen (China)
Ying-Yueh Chuang (Taiwan/Canada)
Jiansheng (Jackson) Li (China)
Julie Bartholomew (Australia)
Wenmin Li (Australia)
Douglas Cham (Australia)

Laurens Tan (Australia/China)

Paul Mathieu (Canada)

Directions from National Art School:

Ivan Dougherty Gallery, cnr of Selwyn and Albion Sts Paddington. [6 mins walk]
Walk out of the Forbes St exit and turn left. Go down Forbes St. to Oxford St. and turn left. Cross Oxford St to the west side at the next crossing and keep walking in the same direction. At Greens Rd turn right to the Uni of NSW. Turn right again almost immediately into Napier St. Walk along to the corner of Napier St and Selwyn St. [No vehicles this end of Selwyn St.]  Walk down Selwyn St to Albion Ave. The Ivan Dougherty Gallery is on this corner.