Ancient Now China
Contents
Quarterly essay
In China
- Craft revival in China: New Year pictures by Anying Chen
- Lacquer revival in Jingzhou by Huan Liu
- Collective support for architectural heritage: The workcamp movement in Liang village by Liwen Zhu
- Negotiating authenticity in the Jianfu Palace Garden restoration by Sharon Tsang-de Lyster
- Hand it to Scotland: Weaving firegrass with the Lisu and Yi communities of Yunnan Province by Janis Embleton
- The Kam blues: Indigo-dyed textiles of the Kam/Dong minority in China by Marie Anna Lee
- Making the cut: The effects of the introduction of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) on the Chinese papercutting 2006-2018 by Pamela See
- Remembering people and places past/passed: Ceramics by Ah Xian, Ai Weiwei, Sin-ying Ho and Liu Jianhua by Alex Burchmore
Chinese influence
- Robin Best ✿ A tea journey in silver and blue by Antonia Harrison
- Deep and shallow time meet in Jingdezhen by Pie Bolton
- Interpreting China through an art jewellery practice by Gussie van der Merwe
- Are you hungry? Jewellery learnings from Shanghai by Vicki Mason
- Tradition and Innovation – the making of Bendigo’s Dai Gum Loong by Leigh McKinnon
- The ladybird garden of Chen Ping by Jan Hogan
Ancient elsewhere
- Why a Japanese lacquer master sought a surfing legend by Sachiko Matsuyama
- From earth grew rice, from rice grew the Warli art by LOkesh Ghai
- How I learned coppersmithing in Gaziantep by Shireen Taweel
- Castlemaine Warriors by Dale Cox
- Elisa-Jane Carmichael ✿ Weaving with ancestors by Sally Butler
- A rainbow serpent theory of time by Tyson Yunkaporta
- Rainbow Serpent art from Pormpuraaw by Syd Bruce Short Joe, John & Eileen Coleman and Paul Jakubowski
- Very peaceful for the ancestors: Chinese memories in the Lambing Flats Folk Museum by Sharon Peoples
Online exhibition
- Ancient Now by Tammy Wong Hulbert
- Living with Dragons