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ZHOU XIAOPING Back to Back Portrait of Jimmy and Xiaoping 1999 synthetic polymer on rice paper laid down on canvas, 207 x 154 cm
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ZHOU XIAOPING Reggie Uluru 2016 oil on canvas, 195 x 157 cm
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ZHOU XIAOPING The Source of Life 2010 synthetic polymer on canvas, 165 x 230 cm
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ZHOU XIAOPING Our Country 2017 ink, oil on rice paper laid down on canvas, 130 x 95 cm
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ZHOU XIAOPING Blue and white Bottle Vase with design from painting by Johnny Bulunbulun 2010 height: 37 cm
Exhibition
ZHOU XIAOPING The Cross-Cultural Influences of Chinese and Indigenous Art
3 Mar 2018 – 21 Apr 2018
Event times
Gallery open Tues - Fri 10am - 6pm and Sat 1pm - 5pm Closed Sun-Mon
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 5 Malakoff Street
- Caulfield North
Victoria - 3161
- Australia
Travel Information
- Walking distance from Malvern Station on the Frankston/Packenham/Dandenong line
Zhou Xiaoping's unique artistic style incorporates his training in Chinese painting with his experiences of indigenous Australia, its landscape, people and art, generating a new aesthetic through his cross-cultural paintings.
About
Arriving in Australia in 1988, Xiaoping has travelled extensively throughout Arnhem Land and the Kimberley and the friendships he has made with indigenous Austalians has had a profound impact on his art. His collaboration with the late Jimmy Pike resulted in the frist exhibition of Aboriginal artwork in China in 1996. Zhou's paintings are in some sense, abstract, entrenched in the tradition of Chinese calligraphy with its fluidity of line and his use of symbols, such as the concentric circle motif, redolent with meaning, has parallels to Australian indigenous art where symbols contain specific information and power.
In 2011 Xiaoping exhibited Trepang, China & the Story of Macassan-Aboriginal trade in Beijing and the Melbourne Museum and at the Australian Embassy in Paris (in 2014). The exhibition featured collaborative works with Johnny Bulunbulun. More recently, Xiaoping has toured the exhibition Dialogues with the Dreaming throughout China in 2017.
As well as developing his unique style, Zhou continually experiments with different techniques, using ink and acrylic on rice paper, laid on canvas and then repainted to create a whorl of colour and a multi-layered texture, complementing the layering of perspective, meaning and narrative in his paintings which seem to traverse culture and time.
