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Lan Wang, Xini, Jiawei Shen and Billy, 2010
Greg Weight
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2012
Shen Jiawei
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Shen Jiawei was born in China. During the Cultural Revolution he laboured in the Great Northern Wilderness, but even as he worked there, he gained recognition as an artist.
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Jiawei Shen
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Lan Wang
Biography
Lan Wang (b. 1953), artist, was born in Beijing, China and at sixteen was sent to work as a farm labourer in China's Great Northern Wilderness for nine years during the Cultural Revolution.
2 portraits in the collection
Artist lovers re-united across the seas
Devotion
Exile burnishes love’s bond
Lan Wang, 2011
Gary Grealy
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM 2016
Jiawei Shen, 2011
Gary Grealy
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM 2016
Jiawei Shen
Biography
Jiawei Shen (b. 1948), artist, was born in China in 1948 and began to gain recognition as a painter during the Cultural Revolution.
13 portraits in the collection
The more things change
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
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Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2017
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.