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Chen Ping, born and schooled in China, including at the prestigious Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from the School of Art, University of Tasmania. His work is held in numerous important private collections around the world, as well as local institutional gallery collections. Chen is a regular exhibitor at international art fairs, most notably the Personal Structures exhibition, part of the Venice Biennale in 2013 and again in 2017. In 2014 his Unseen Mountain was the official gift of the Tasmanian Government to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan. Chen maintains traditional Chinese cultural values while exploring concepts from a contemporary Western perspective. His exceptional academic understanding of drawing informs his coherent and synesthetic paintings, where the broad strokes of colour of landscapes and the thin lines of peaks, ranges and old Chinese characters are composed to produce a dialectic. Underpinning all of Chen's works are his meditations on life and the frailty of the human condition.

Chen Ping’s work resists easy definition. It lives in the space between gesture and stillness, tradition and rupture. Drawing as much from the language of abstraction as from a deep internal rhythm that feels almost ancient. First exhibited at the Guangdong Museum of Art in 2008, this large-scale painting reveals itself slowly. The surface is built, undone, reformed, a terrain of thought, instinct, and memory. What I find most powerful is its refusal to settle. It pulses. It breathes. It invites. As with the strongest works of abstraction, Chen Ping gives us no answers, only the invitation to stay long enough with the silence to hear what might emerge.

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