Sino‐Australian Nomads: Identity Politics And The Art Of Migrants

Abstract

Description of my artwork My MFA creative work consists of a body of work of 14 pieces of various sized abstract paintings that will be exhibited at one of the galleries in the February Postgraduate Examination Exhibition at the Sydney College of the Arts. The entire project consists of works on paper using the medium of ink, gouache, acrylics, pencil and digital data. Entitled ‘Forms from the Twilight Zone ’ this body of work is largely an experimentation aimed at using mixed medium to project globalised features of identity arts such as oriental style painting meeting western styles; resulting in a combined style influenced by my personal circumstances. Abstract of research paper My research paper is designed to explore the issues of identity. Artists and their works mostly have their genesis in and are influenced by their cultural identities with global politics playing an additional crucial role affecting these arts. My research led to the discovery that Chinese cultural identity artists create art that, due to its political characteristics, has become known and popular in the West, and that these characteristics generate identity issues to both these Chinese artists and to the West. In the research process, theories involving modern arts form a trajectory to my approach of the art world of the 21st century while an ongoing investigation of the situation of visual arts, in both international and domestic dimensions, provides facts for synthesis of these theories. The conclusion of my research is based on the fact that a combination of styles is part of art history. The nature of this combination depends on the ideas and the beliefs that an artist is subjected to in the approach to his or her own art.