TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER ONLINE EXHIBITION
TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER
ONLINE EXHIBITION Vol. 7
Art has never been absent from any significant moments.
This online exhibition aims to encourage artists of different ages and from a variety of cultural backgrounds to create profound works of art to inspire the wider public to overcome current difficulties and fulfill their lives. These artists share a common concept of making the world better through art. Let's galvanise a collective will to make a change for a better future.
Artworks for the online exhibition are updated continuously.
5 sep 2021 - 4 sep 2022
The Arts Centre of Christchurch
A centre for the arts in Ōtautahi Christchurch
ARTISTs
Artists and their artworks
Weiguo Jiang
Weiguo Jiang, born in Beijing, China, came to New Zealand in May 1987.
He is a member of the New Zealand Photography Association.
Shadow Play
In the mirror
Warning
Yan Yuan
Yan Yuan was born in Beijing China in 1957 and she came to New Zealand in May 1987. When she was young, her father taught her to take photos with a film camera. After arriving in New Zealand, she still has an interest in photography. In 2016, she went to night school to learn photography. She joined the Christchurch Photography Society in 2016 and joined the Pixels photography club in 2017. In 2017 she became a member of the New Zealand Photography Association. In the past few years, Yan Yuan has won many awards in international competitions and various competitions in New Zealand. Thirteen works have been selected for the Auckland Photo Festival.
Milky Way at Castle Hill
Hongi
Happy Fun Run
Ping Lu
Ping Lu was born in Qingdao, China in 1953. She came to New Zealand in September 2005 and joined the Pixels Photography Club in 2019. She has become a Member of the Christchurch Photography Association since 2020. Some of her works won awards in 2021.
Taking off
Children Playing
Lady Surfing
Hong Chen
Hong Chen, born in 1968, successively studied in the Chinese Department of Liaoning University, Department of Fashion Design, School of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, and Graduate School of International Hotel Management (DCT, Switzerland). She has a special interest in Chinese landscape painting and is good at landscape, ice and snow painting. Many of her works have been collected by people at home and abroad. She is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the Asian Urban Art Development Alliance and the Deputy Director of Arts Committee of New Zealand Chinese Union of Culture and Arts.
A sign of propitiousness
The charm of Autumn
The charm of Spring
Yingling Tang
Yingling Tang, also named Ziying, whose ancestral home is Changtai, Fujian, was born in Indonesia. She moved to Taiwan with her parents in childhood. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University and graduated from the in-service refresher class of the Institute of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Feitaufei Honorary Society and has been engaged in art education for more than 20 years. She has published a collection of paintings and an album of exhibition works published by the Jianxing Art Gallery of Jianxing University of Science and Technology. Her works are included in the collection of time classics of Yanhuangjiuzhou Culture and Art Exchange Center.
She is currently in New Zealand and lives in seclusion in the South Taicaotang of the camel small pastoral area. Cultivating and painting, experiencing and feeling, wandering in ink and paint, uses brushes, applies color, composition and layout, and does not stick to media tools, regardless of painting school theory. The form is still based on tradition, and the spirit is written in form, which can be combined with imagination, point description, overlap, division and combination, so as to comprehensively apply what we have learned and enrich the content of creation with multiple themes.
More than ten solo exhibitions have been held in: Taiwan Art Education Museum, Taipei National Father Memorial Hall, Chung Cheng Memorial Hall, Central Research Institute, head office of Taiwan Land Bank, Jianxing University of Science and Technology, Huagang Museum, and Nathan Homestead in New Zealand, Manurewa Community Art Center in New Zealand, Foguangyuan Art Museum in New Zealand, etc.
Impression of New Zealand
oil on canvas
132x66cm
Alpaca Family oil on canvas 112x194cm
Racing on Autumn Fields oil on canvas 100x196cm
Jennifer Zhuge
Jennifer (Jifeng) Zhuge graduated from George Brown in Canada, major in visual arts and preschool education. Her works have been exhibited at the Luscullure Gallery in Toronto for many times. In 2020, her works participated in the online joint exhibition of Italy and France. In 2021, she participated in the fourth new abstractionism exhibition and won the Excellence Award. In 2021, she participated in the Academic Invitation Exhibition of Figure Painting, the first, third and fourth New International Art online exhibitions in 2021, and the first World Famous Chinese Artists and Excellent Works Exhibition in 2022. He is the author of Count 123 with Me, Read ABC with me, We are Growing.
Expecting
Girl in the glow
Mother and Son
Meiru Zhu
Meiru Zhu, female, love painting and calligraphy. Specialising in the creation of flowers and birds, her works have won gold, silver and first prizes in national and provincial exhibitions for many times. She is a director of the Chinese Academy of Painting and Calligraphy, a distinguished painter of the Chinese Academy of contemporary famous artists, and a contracted painter of Boya Academy of Painting and Calligraphy.
the Season of Renewal
60cm x 123cm
the National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance
38cm x 132cm
Spring Charm
38cm x 132cm
Richard Feinman
Richard Feinman is an American artist living in China for seventeen years. His artworks have been exhibited and collected throughout the world. He is currently developing a new form of art movement based upon awakening the subconscious. His initiative is to expand, enrich and cultivate art practice by exploring ways to visually combine phenomenal qualities of experiences with thought processes of absolute reality.
Don't Trample on Me
120 X 90cm
oil on canvas
mixed medium
gold leaves
2021
Huddle
2021120x90cm
oil on canvas
Jiandu Kang
Jiandu Kang studied art history in Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore. He is a member of Wuhan Art Association, was born in an art family, returned from Singapore, gallery owner and professional painter.
Creative concept: colors, lines, graphics and human visual feelings will have specific content. People perceive them from the inherent of genes and the accumulation of visual experience. The challenge of abstract painters is to establish a certain connection between these pattern elements and thinking, and create paintings accepted by the viewer.
Flying Apsaras 1
90x90cm
ink abstract painting
Flying Apsaras 2
90x90cm
ink abstract painting
Lishuang Yao
Lishuang Yao (Maizi), Mulao nationality, graduated from Guangxi Academy of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, national first-class artist, national first-class image designer and university teacher. Vice president of the International Society of Women Artists, vice president of the International Union of Abstract Artists, the deputy secretary general of the International Union of Young Artists, executive director of China International Federation of Abstract Art, a member of the International Federation of Calligraphy and Painting Artists, a member of China Abstract Art Union, a member of China Contemporary Women's Painting Association, a member of New York Contemporary Art Center, and a member of Guangxi Artists Association. In 2019, he was selected as an influential artist in China. He has published a collection of Lishuang Yao's oil paintings.
Lishuang Yao's paintings have a strong Mulao artistic complex. She has been trying to combine her national culture with marine elements. The experiment uses abstract artistic language to express the emotion of the current era and individual uniqueness. Her works show Lishuang Yao's abstract minority artistic style.
Warm Sun-20211018
acrylic on canvas
120x120cm
2021
Warm Sun-20210226
acrylic on canvas
150x160cm
2021
