Passages: Brian Castro, Khai Liew, John Young
Brian Castro
Eight Chinese Lessons 2007,
text
Khai Liew
Spoehr 2007,
armchair in American black walnut, 76.5 x 56 x 55.5 cm
John Young
Northern Song #5 Summer 2007,
oil on linen, 90 x 50 cm
Photography: Grant Hancock
25 February 2012 - 27 May 2012
Passages is a collaborative project which presents an enticing combination of thought-provoking literature, elegant design and fine art, bringing together the writings of Brian Castro, furniture of Khai Liew, and paintings of John Young. The three artists in Passages inhabit a similar cultural space shaped by the Asian Diaspora, which emerges in varying degrees through their individual disciplines of literature, design and visual art. Their common Asian reference informs each artist’s engagement with modernism to develop an aesthetic particular to Australia. This wonderful confluence of ideas and experiences enables fresh dialogues and dynamic correspondences to emerge and be exchanged between their different art forms.