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Art Month Sydney in Lane Cove Gallery Lane Cove is part of Art Month Sydney, a city-wide festival that celebrates contemporary art, artists and galleries which runs from 4-21 March. More than 60 galleries across Sydney are involved.
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allery Lane Cove will participate in the well-established Art Month Sydney contemporary art festival with a stunning ceramics exhibition by artist Ruth Ju-Shih Li and another multi-media exhibition titled Rewilding, which explores the captivating and controversial concept of returning Earth’s habitats to a natural, preindustrial state. Ruth Ju-Shih Li, who is currently artist-in-residence at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, has a significant international profile and is represented by MAY SPACE in Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the National Art School, Darlinghurst (NAS) in 2013. Pre-COVID, she divided her time between Taiwan, her ancestral homeland, China and Australia. Since graduating, Li has exhibited widely in Sydney and internationally in Taiwan, China, Korea, and Thailand. She was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize in 2017, won the Emerging Artists Prize in 2019, and received the Special Prize at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale International 2020. Ruth explores different ways of narrating both traditional and multicultural concepts of beauty and draws inspiration from her diverse cultural heritage, both philosophically and aesthetically, while also referencing the language of dreams, myths and the idea of utopia. Her exhibition at Gallery Lane Cove titled “Flora Ephemera” investigates the different possibilities of ceramics, in particular porcelain, and has works that are both sculptural and site-specific installations. Curated by Rachael Kiang, the show is described as “autobiographical in nature,” while acting as “a metaphorical meditation on the fragile paradox of life, death 34 TVO
and time.” The gallery’s “Rewilding” exhibition pulls together a diverse group of artists including Alyson Hayes (our “Artist Profile” this month), Kat Seward, Penelope Cain, Barbara Doran, Susie Pratt, Wendy Bishop and Greg Hodgkinson. Curated by Lane Cove locals Ann Proudfoot and Sky Hugman, it features ceramics, paintings, photographs, papier-
mâché, sculptures and sound, light and multimedia installations and is designed to stimulate conversations about arts-based responses to the restoration of natural eco-systems and human involvement with them. Both exhibitions are complemented by a public engagement program that includes a series of workshops, rituals, and panel discussions with artists and curators.
