Summer Sojourn
Summer Sojourn 2025
End of Year Group Exhibition
22 November –6 December 2025
Exhibition opening with the Artists
to be launched by
Andrew Cameron AM
Trustee, Art Gallery of NSW
Board Director, Sydney Festival
Saturday 22 November 2025
2.30 – 4.30 pm
Adrian Lockhart Akira Kamada Andrew Tomkins
Asher Milgate Barbara McGrady Blak Douglas
BRAT Christopher Connell Claudia Chan Shaw
Clinton Nain Dapeng Liu David Holm David Middlebrook
Fan Dongwang Jacqueline Balassa Fahn (James Gardiner)
Jan Cleveringa Jayanto Tan Jeffrey Samuels John Murray
Juno Gemes Kaye Mahoney Keith Fyfe
Kyra Kum-Sing Lucy Moloney Maryanne Wick
Michelle Belgiorno Miguel Olmo Mostafa Azimitabar
Naidee Changmoh Nick Ferguson Oscar Garcia
Pamela See Patrick Shirvington Paul Connor
Peter Poulet Philip Cox Ros Auld
Sophie Dunlop Susan O'Doherty Teena McCarthy
Tony Costa Tony Twigg Vic McEwan
Wang Xu William Yang Yiwon Park
Juno Gemes
Until Justice Comes
Book Launch and Panel Discussion
with
Nicholas Tsoutas & Catherine De Lorenzo
Saturday 29 November 2025
4.30 - 5.30 pm
Fan Dongwang
Chinese Ink Brush Painting on Rice Paper Workshop
How to Paint Plum Blossom 梅花
Saturday 6 December 2025
2.30 - 4.30 pm
Cost : $ 70 including all material
2 hour workshop for a class of 14 (no experience necessary) to learn the basics of traditional Chinese ink brush painting, using simple but expressive brush stroke on rice paper to creative some beautiful Chinese painting of a plum blossom. To learn about the importance of Chinese philosophy and aesthetics in the creation of this art form. The elegant brush technique is taught in a way that is easy to understand, meditative, enjoyable and relaxing.
The plum tree is renowned for bursting into a riot of blossoms exuding an otherworldly exquisiteness and beautiful elegance during the desolation of winter. On Chinese culture it serves as a metaphor for inner beauty and humble display under adverse conditions.
RSVP : Fan Dongwang Chinese Ink Brush Painting Workshop
View Summer Sojourn Catalogue
ARTWORKS
76 × 56 cm
Water colour ink, acrylic, gesso, charcoal
T-shirt. coat hanger and hook $750
Oil Soup Soil T-shirt Edition of 100 $166
Digital Print
42 cm x 51 cm
12 colour pigment print on 310 gsm cotton rag
40 cm x 27 cm
photograph, light, projector, fog, archival pigment print
25 cm x 37 cm
Photogravure - Unique State Print on Antique Handmade Paper with Chine colle Gampi background
61 cm x 50.8 cm
Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas, unframed
286 cm x 235 cm
Silver gelatin print
Sewn and perforated
Lightbox
25.5 x 52.5 x 26.5 cm
Fiberglass with acrylic paint
58 cm x 49 cm
Antique Mahogany Wood / gold Frame
Collage - 1800's book - Sir Thomas Mitchell's Journey down the Darling River
Butchers paper self portrait- Ceremony
Acrylic white paint
50 x 40 cm
Acrylic on canvas