White Rabbit Gallery

What is the entry fee, opening times & location?
White Rabbit Gallery is a free place for anyone who interested in art.
Opening times is Thu-Sun 10am-6pm.
Location: 30 Balfour Street Chippendale 2008


White Rabbit art theme (both culture and topic)?
Culture: I think they are about 1990's Asia, especially for Chinese.
Topic: Environment protection


Your favourite piece of art and why?(Including artist details)
Artist details:

Born: Lhasa, Tibet, 1971. Lives and works in Tibet

Gade is half Chinese, but it’s the Tibetan tradition that he embraces, and “Tibet’s anonymous ancient artists” that he reveres. In his quiet way, however, he also rebels against the rigidly religious nature of tradition, and the chokehold it retains on many outsiders’ view of Tibet. For Gade, Tibet is not a changeless museum of mysticism. It is TV and KFC, Levi’s and Budweiser. Rather than trying to depict a fantasy Tibet of gods and monsters and sacred ritual, Gade has always striven “to paint my Tibet, the one I grew up in and belong to.” He uses traditional iconography, cotton cloth, and pigments. But his scroll-format paintings are as likely to include Ronald McDonald or Spiderman as the Buddha. The 300 lotus thrones in Precious Objects (2007) hold cigarettes, thermos flasks, gas masks, instant noodles, and sewing needles. “Many people simplify Tibet,” Gade says. “They ask, How can Tibet have things like Christmas trees or fast food or Nikes? But young Tibetans have already accepted these things … I am interested in the state of people who are living in this ever-changing society.”

I like this one, some details inside. If you see every small image, you will find some interesting things. All the small images are different. So I think this artist is a prudentially man.

Your least favourite piece of art and why?(Include artist details)

Artist details:

“Art was a secret haven for me, it gave me a chance to live with all the things I had seen.” —Ai Weiwei, interviewed in Die Zeit, 2 Oct 2009

Born: Beijing, 1957. Lives and works in Beijing

Ai Weiwei is one of China’s best-known artists, as much for his outspokenness on social and political issues as for his protean creative output. His website is titled Fake, and the themes of his work often circle around questions of authenticity, value, and their construction and destruction.

I think this made by stone, it looks like sunflower and the smell is good. But I don't like this style, I think this just put them together and do not have some personal idea, also do not give us something can take away.

How you felt while you were at the White Rabbit Collection?

I feel so nervous, actually I am Chinese. These recycables 98% are from China. I hate these rubbish, and I hope one day I can contribute to the environment.

If you found the excursion to The White Rabbit beneficial and why.

I think it's very useful and necessary to go to White Rabbit Gallery. We can get some art information and some thing can take away to your education.

Also, what is the history behind The White Rabbit Collection, who is it for, and how often do they change the collection?

The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.

The White Rabbit Collection did arise from a series of chance encounters. The first was in 1999, when I came across a wall sculpture by Wang Zhiyuan in the storeroom of a Sydney art gallery. It showed whimsical fusions of humans, animals and angels, and I was immediately struck by the artist’s inventiveness and technical mastery.
That discovery led to a meeting with Wang Zhiyuan, who became a family friend and regaled us with news of the exciting changes taking place in the Chinese art world. A few years later, as a surprise present, I took my younger daughter to China. We met up with Wang Zhiyuan, who had moved to Beijing and opened a studio.
That led to perhaps the biggest surprise of all—seeing the extraordinary art he had been raving about. The best of it had all the qualities that had made his work leap out at me. It was bursting with ideas and energy, vibrant, often humorous, imaginative, technically superb and utterly compelling. I was hooked, and wanted to start collecting at once.

It is for everyone.

The entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year.