Revelations in Art: Celebrating 15 Years of Jimmy He's Creative Vision
22 Feb 2024 – 4 Mar 2024
Opening Ceremony Friday 23 February at 1pm
Location: Frater, Hammond & McCubbin Galleries
His works delve deep into the expression of artistic concepts, highlighting emotions, inner drives, and freedom. The colours, lines, and shapes in his paintings no longer merely repeat or objectively reflect the world but instead express the emotions and turmoil of the artist's inner world. In He's 15-year retrospective exhibition, we see the artist's ongoing innovation and breakthroughs in the realm of painting, pushing the boundaries and limits of contemporary art, thereby propelling the eternal progression and development of art.
CURATOR TALK WITH RAYMOND GU
Friday 1 March, 2pm
Delivered in Mandarin
Mr Rui Gu graduated from Shanghai Normal University with a BA degree majoring in English and American Literature, and has worked as an English translator at the Shanghai International Seamen's Club, Teacher of English at Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, Senior manager of Independent Cooperate Solutions (an Australian human resources company - facilitating Australian Companies to do business with their counterparts in China), Sales director of ZF Asia Pacific Co., Ltd., Secretary general of the Australian Chinese Writers Association, and Overseas member of the Shanghai European and American Scholars Association.
Mr Rui Gu is passionate about popularizing art knowledge, and has held a series of art lectures in various libraries in Melbourne (Richmond Library, Glen Waverley Library, Wheelers Hill Library and Mt. Waverley Library respectively ), the Australia-Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, the Tongji University Alumni Association, the Jiaotong University Alumni Association, the Fudan University Alumni Association in Melbourne, the Art Department of Tianhua College of Shanghai Normal University, and the Shanghai Caoying (a famous translator in China) Reading Club. His latest book, Up Close Van Gogh, was published in October 2023 by Shanghai Culture Publishing House.
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.