Wollongong artist Lucas Ihlein has been commissioned to create a series of works to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the City of Sydney’s sister-city relationship with Guangzhou Municipality in China.
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Ihlein and Guangdong-born artist Trevor Yeung have been working at China’s contemporary art space, the Observation Society, to create works that reflect on the complex urban geographies of the two cities.
Ihlein’s work extends his ongoing interest in the water systems of Sydney and the Illawarra region, presenting new research into the natural waterways of Guangzhou. The 41-year-old will be working across a range of media.
Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore will officially open the Chinese leg of the “Sea Pearl White Cloud” exhibition on Wednesday at Guangzhou’s Observation Society.
The exhibition will be displayed at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Chinatown from July 30 until September 24.
Lucas Ihlein bio:
Lucas Ihlein is a Wollongong-based artist whose current work explores the relationship between socially engaged art, agriculture and ecological management. He is a founding member of artists’ collectives SquatSpace, Big Fag Press, and Teaching and Learning Cinema.
He completed a PhD at Deakin University, Melbourne, in 2008 entitled Framing Everyday Experience: Blogging as Art, which won the Alfred Deakin Medal for best Doctoral Thesis in Humanities and Social Sciences.
A recipient of numerous awards and artist residencies, in 2015 Ihlein was awarded a prestigious Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship for Emerging and Experimental ARC DECRA Research Fellow at University of Wollongong, Australia.
* Source: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art