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wandi artist bio

Artist, curator. Based in Sydney.

Her art practice includes paintings, photography, installations, and documentation.

Wandi started to create artworks from 2015 during her undergraduate degree in economics. She went to study at the University of Melbourne as a postgraduate in on the Master of Art Curatorship course. She co-curated her first exhibition: Amplified, Redefined: Protest for Change at the George Paton Gallery in April 2018.

 

Her artwork explores feminism and focuses on female identity. Growing up in China, her artworks are inspired by and build upon personal experiences in the context of Chinese culture and society.

In recent years practice, Wandi uses common objects from day to day life and transforms them into installations. Through the everydayness of the objects, she reflects on the elements and meanings of the construction of female identity. In her latest work, she uses party balloons to create a fake gender reveal party setup. She includes red ribbons which are believed to bring luck in traditional Chinese superstitions, as a metaphor for the female experience of marriage.

Anger is power. Anger is a reason.
 
 
Image by Rachel Brown, 2022

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

oiled and covered and never mentioned

George Paton Gallery, ​University of Melbourne

​Curator: Cade Burgess

2021

Erinys

George Paton Gallery - Online, ​University of Melbourne

​Curator: Cade Burgess

STAGES: Life in Lockdown 

Atrium Gallery, Melbourne

2020-2021

What is Chinese?

Online, TOPA Asia 2020

​Producer: Xiaoke, Zihan

ILFORD CCP Salon 

Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2020

International Women's Day2.0 

Marfa Gallery, Melbourne

​Curator: Jessica Dang 

2019

A Room of Her Own 

Brightspace Gallery

​Curator: Luna Chen 

ARTWORKS

2022

Installation: How is she

​Balloons, flexible size

2019 -

​Photography: The Annoyed

​Digital, flexible size

2020

Documentary: The Virtual Mannerism 

Video, 6m44s

2018

Installation & Documentary: My 2nd Zodiac Year 

Christmas tree, 84 copies of polaroids.

2018

Photography: My body My Rules  

Digital print, 60*80cm

Documentary: Stick it Out

​Director: Bella Qiufan CHEN

2017

Illustration: Portraits of My Family 

Oil painting, Adobe Illustration

2017

White Frame

​Photos taken in Beijing, Shagnhai, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Melbourne 

2015

Illustration: Cats Series

​Watercolor

 

Artist Instagram: @wanditheartist

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