GUAN WEI's painting Sky (1998) is soon to be exhibited as part of a special project for HOTA's dedicated Children's Gallery
The exhibition, Cloudy with a Chance of Art, opens on 8 November 2025 and will run over the summer. HOTA (formerly Gold Coast City Gallery) aims to elevate the experience for families visiting the Children’s Gallery by exposing them to exemplary works of art such as Guan Wei's from the HOTA Collection, as well as loans from public collections from across the country.
Sky featured in Guan Wei's installation, Feng Shui, for the 1998 Asia Pacific Triennal. Feng Shui made a statement about the holistic and intrinsic relationship between human beings and the natural environment. The issues raised in the work were from a number of perspectives: from a historical point of view the piece looked at how humans have explored their living space; from a scientific point of view, how understandings of its existence and structure are reached; from an artistic point of view, how people express their emotional relationships with the environment; and from a practical viewpoint, how people use natural resources, like sand, rocks, water and even life.
