CALLING ALL EAST ASIAN ARTISTSPublic Art Commissioning OpportunitiesAs part of Chinatown Arts Festival 2008: Five Circles, Chinatown Arts Space and Chinatown’s principal landowner, Shaftesbury PLC, are working in creative partnership to commission two major new pieces of exciting public art for London’s Chinatown. These are two significant opportunities for East Asian artists to win a prestigious commission and see their work showcased in the heart of a major capital city. Artists are encouraged to create ideas for contemporary works that address both the heritage and history of London’s Chinatown, and that celebrate the current diversity and dynamism of the area.Deadline for entries: 28 March 2008 Further information about the commissions and full entry details of the requirements for submission of proposals and the specifics of the site can be downloaded from www.chinatownartsspace.com
Archive for January, 2008
With a packed programme of exhibitions, events and residencies planned, Chinese Arts Centre is gearing up for an exciting forthcoming Year of the Rat! Continue reading ‘February Newsletter’
Wuon Gean Ho, Wild West 01, 2007.
18 January – 15 April 2008
Life, death, memories and nostalgia are recurrent themes in much of Wuon Gean Ho’s work. As a practising vet, she sees death on a daily basis, and she has been moved to make work that shows her response to this. Continue reading ‘Wuon Gean Ho’
18 January – 23 March 2008
The title of Gordon Cheung’s first solo exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre is a playful dark reference to the cut/paste techniques that he uses to depict post-apocalyptic landscapes. It also references ‘slow slicing’, a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 to its abolition in 1905. Continue reading ‘Gordon Cheung: Death by a Thousand Cuts’
CO-EVOLUTION: A Danish/Chinese collaboration on sustainable urban development in China
2 – 23 February 2008 at CUBE Continue reading ‘CO-EVOLUTION at CUBE’
In collaboration with Birth Rites
10 January – 28 February 2008
Swiss-Chinese installation artist Ping Qiu ceramic vessels are sensual, sexual, playful, strangely comforting expressions of the human form. During her residency at Chinese Arts Centre Ping has been creating several works varying in size which celebrate the female form and female strength with particular reference to child birth. Continue reading ‘Ping Qiu’
