| Lan Wang was born in
Beijing in 1953 and at the age of 16, during the Cultural Revolution,
was sent to work as a farm labourer for nine years in the Great
Northern Wilderness – 2,000km from Beijing. In 1977 she entered the Print Department of the Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang, China, where she obtained her Masters degree. Lan then worked as an artist and teacher there for many years. Lan is a member of the Chinese Artists Association and her works are in many top private and public collections, including the National Art Gallery of China in Beijing. Though she specialises in printmaking, she is also skilled in many other media, including woodcarving. In 1989 a mural formed of large carvings won the silver medal in the National Art Exhibition. Arriving in Australia in 1991 with her 2 year old daughter, she continued to paint while adapting to her new surroundings. She has had solo exhibitions at Coventry Gallery in 1993 and 1997 and her work has appeared in several publications including ‘images, Contemporary Australian Painting’. In 1998 Lan was commissioned to paint three murals for the Sydney Children’s Hospital, and the work is loved and admired by staff and visitors. Currently Lan is painting a new series for a solo exhibition and this comes after her involvement in an extremely successful AAP charity exhibition in 1998, with other well-known Bundeena artists, which raised over $100,000. Her work has a timeless mythic quality and she continues to explore the quieter realms of the psyche in her own inimitable way. Benjamin Genocchio commented: “[she] renders idyllic landscapes along with scenes from traditional Jing-ju opera in a fragmentary style reminiscent of Paul Klee.” |
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Musicians No. 2
acrylic on board
102cm x 82cm
Pastoral
acrylic on canvas
46cm x 56cm
Harmony No. 19
acrylic on board
83cm x 83cm
Images in portrait banner
left: detail from Harmony
acrylic on board
12cm x 32cm
centre: Harmony No. 12
acrylic on board
60cm x 60cm