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Di Wu Exhibition: From Contemporary Art to Illustrations for Children’s Books - Until 22 February
From: Sree Chandra
Valid from: Friday 14 January 2022 to Tuesday 1 February 2022
Details
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Dates: Now until Tuesday 22 February
Times: Monday to Friday, 9.30am - 5.00pm
Location: Building EA.G.03, Parramatta South campus
About the Artist
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Di Wu is a Sydney-based Chinese Australian contemporary artist and children’s book illustrator. He was initially trained at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as an editor and illustrator at the People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, one of the biggest fine arts publishing houses in China. He came to Australia in 1984 and graduated from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, with a master’s degree in visual arts in 1988.
Di Wu devoted himself to the study of Tibetan Buddhist art and visited Buddhist palaces and temples in Tibet, Nepal and India. He had also travelled to Europe to study the works of contemporary art masters. He since developed his own unique style of Tibet series of paintings and spectacular large-scale art installations of mandalas.
Having moved on to illustrating children’s books, in 1994 his first Australian picture book, Rebel (written by Allan Baillie) was shortlisted for CBC Picture Book of the Year.
Di Wu's latest picture book, Star of Anise (written by Jane Jolly and published by NLA Publishing), will be launched at the exhibition.
For more information about Di Wu, his career and the exhibition details, please visit https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/iac/exhibitions2/di_wu_from_contemporary_art_to_illustrations_for_childrens_books
Children's books will be on sale and children are welcome to attend the exhibition.
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