TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER ONLINE EXHIBITION

TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER

ONLINE EXHIBITION Vol. 9

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

Xiaolan Hong / more

Tina Tian / more

Seba Razouk / more

Tianqi Niu / more

Sophie Qin / more

Yan Geng / more

Haining Wang / more

Ruona Luo / more

Xueqin Cai / more

Huan Xie / more

Artists and their artworks

Xiaolan Hong

Graduated from the Central Academy of fine arts with a master's degree. Contemporary Art International curator, oil painter, art critic and art educator. She is now the chairman of Zhejiang HuaSu Culture Media Co., Ltd., the member of the Art Committee of China art platform, the vice president of the International Women Artists Association, the executive director of the International Abstract Artists Union, the founder of Pujiang Station of China Oil Painting and Sketching Club base, the curator of Pujiang HuaSu Contemporary Art Museum, the curator of Xiaolan Hong Art Museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the founder of HuaSu Culture, the researcher of China Contemporary Culture Research Institute, the member of China Oil Painting Association, the director of China Arts and Crafts Association, national first-class artist, the curator of Juren Xiaolan Hong Art Museum in Meijiang, Lanxi, Zhejiang, the curator of Hong Xiaolan Art Museum in Anguo temple, Caozhai Town, Jindong District, Jinhua, Zhejiang.

Artist 1

The Origin of the Universe

Mineral oil painting

90 × 100cm 2020

One of the Five Saints

Mineral oil on canvas

260x500cm

Artist 2

Tianqi Niu

90s artist, a member of ASFEA, Prior of Attitude Art Space and Concept Art.

Creative idea:
Life comes from perception, and feeling comes from life. Painting is the epitome of the formless world. What you think and draw; Draw what, think what; What you think, what you mean; What you mean, what exists. This is virtual reality meta.

《孤独的人有他们自己的泥沼》18x24cm，油漆，水彩，石膏，布面综合实验材料，2020年.png

Lonely People have their Own Mire

18x24cm 2020

Comprehensive experimental materials of paint, watercolor, gypsum and cloth

《请放弃我吧》 16x50cm，油漆，油彩，水彩，实验综合材料，2021年.png

Please Give Me Up

16x50cm 2021

paint, oil paint, watercolor, experimental comprehensive materials

Haining Wang

Freelance artist, who has been engaged in art and design for a long time, has participated in contemporary art activities since the 1980s. The exhibitions and awards have been fruitful. He pays attention to the experimental nature of art and the style path of free expression. He has participated in more than 70 Chinese and foreign exhibitions. A Member of Shandong Artists Association, senior painter of Shandong Academy of painting, a member of American oil painting acrylic painting association, a member of Canadian Oil Painting Association and executive director of International Abstract Artists Union.

Artist 3

The Art of Heaven and Earth 1
Contemporary ink painting

100x100cm 2021

The Art of Heaven and Earth 2

Contemporary ink painting

100x100cm 2021

Artist 4

Tina Tian

She was born in China in 1959 and now lives in Canada. A Canadian Chinese artist, a member of the Canadian Artists Union, a member of the new Knight International Art Union and a member of the International Federation of Calligraphy and Painting Artists.

Faded and Fallen Series 1

61x61cm 2021

Faded and Fallen Series 2

61x61cm 2021

Sophie Qin

Creative concept: my artistic creation began in Germany in 1998. Painting is the rhythm of thinking and the comprehensive expression of emotion, experience, philosophy and aesthetics. When I picked up the brush, I was very quiet and happy. That was the moment when I communicated with God, love and the future.

Artist 5

Paris Memory

color ink Abstract

33x65cm 2021

Summer Garden

color ink Abstract

33x33cm 2021

Ruona Luo

Most of her works are western abstract oil paintings, but all her works incorporate Chinese image nutrition, and organically infiltrate the Oriental aesthetic concept into the study of formal language. In order to express her feelings better, she pays more attention to the artistic characteristics of oil painting. In terms of composition, color, modeling, brushwork, texture and so on, she integrates more subjective spiritual factors, highlights the artistic expression of aesthetics and the impact of vision, pursues the mind to move with the pen, combines form and spirit, and creates the momentum, artistic conception, rhythm and other characteristics of the picture, to reflect the overall characteristics of her personal artistic expression.

Artist 6

Inscriptionless 01

oil painting 80x60cm 2020

Inscriptionless 02

oil painting 80x80cm

Artist 7

Seba Razouk

A Syrian female painter, one of the most famous young artists in Syria.

Art is creating a beautiful new world that makes us enter the depths of our memories and thoughts to spread peace and love.

From these comes the importance of abstraction in paying attention to the essence of the thing and communicating feelings and ideas through simple symbols or colors that express our inner emotions, as the reader’s interpretations differ according to his culture, experiences, memories and contact with these forms and colors. The value of the artwork is in different points of view, thinking and meditating on it every time to discover something new.

Sun Shine

60×80 cm Acrylic color

China 2021

The Isthmus

60×80 cm Acrylic color

China 2018

Artist 8

Yan Geng

Yan Geng's pen name is Qianhui, and she styled herself as Yu Li.

Creative concept:

Yunnan(Province) is known as the south of colorful clouds. Beautiful colorful auspicious clouds can be seen everywhere. Terraces are the landscape melody that people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan have been 'carving' in the landscape for more than 1000 years. The beautiful terraces like music and the auspicious clouds floating in the sky are flowing movements; It is a 'blessing field' planted by people with kindness and wisdom, a portrait of green water and green mountains falling with each passing year, and a lyrical narration of the great beauty of nature.

Blessed Land #6

Chinese painting 69cmx58cm

Blessed Land #8

Chinese painting 138cmx69cm

Xueqin Cai

Creative idea: formal beauty has the value of independent existence. Contemporary abstractionist works pay attention to the relationship between color and soul and visual feeling, and pay less attention to the relationship between light and color. But let the color match the emotion, direct glow, will have the different esthetic effect.

Artist 9

Emerald Shadow and Silky Glow

Watercolor on paper

30x38cm

Four Seasons

Watercolor on canvas

79x118cm 2021

Julie Xie

Graduated from China Academy of fine arts, a professional painter, a member of China contemporary women's Painting Association, the Deputy Secretary General of China Artists' Federation, and a member of China Oil Painting. She is good at abstract character expressionism style. Her works are full of unique imagination. Combined with Eastern and Western painting elements and bright colors, she creates a fanciful painting context. Her painting style is bold and perceptive. Over the years, her works have participated in national and international art exhibitions for many times, won many awards and many works have been collected by various institutions.

Artist 10