Monday, 16 May 2011

China Today - an exhibition of contemporary Chinese ceramics


The Great Hall at Gum San is a fabulous venue to show a stunning collection like this one
Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre hosted the amazing China Today contemporary ceramics exhibition over Easter from April 12 until May 7. This show has been traveling around the world since 1997. The Embassy of the Peoples' Republic of China in Canberra brought the collection to Australia as part of the 'Year of China in Australia'. It came to us from the Museum of Chinese Australian History, 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne and was very well received by our visitors who were staggered by the variety of the ceramics on show ranging from the ultra-modern to the very conventional.

Organisation is the key to a good exhibition
Marg unpacks some of the exhibits

The stunning 'Far Away' by Huang Huanyi
Avant-garde piece 'In the Woods' by Dai Shufeng
Pots anyone would be happy to own
'Post Terra-cotta Soldiers' by Liang Gang - everyone is different just like the terra-cotta warriors in Xian
Chinese tea ware
Bathing has never been so good

Even the vegies are ceramic

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