HISTORY PROJECTS
These four works from our current exhibition, JOHN YOUNG: 'Spectrumfigures, Naturescapes' mark a signifiant point in the artist's ongoing History Projects.
In 2013, John Young was the recipient of the Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship to research the History of Chinese Diaspora in Australia.
The Fellowship supported work on two-year program with a team of researchers, who unearthed over 130 stories the long presence and rich contribution of the Chinese in Australia since the 1840s. The resultant History Projects are an amalgamation of historical imagery, investigative visual reports and contemporary artistic synthesis that evidence.
Now, a decade after it began, John Young's The History Projects is examined in a forthcoming monograph, edited by Olivier Krischer, published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney (2023).
