Ah Xian b. 1960

Also known as Liu Ji Xian
  • Artist
A painter and sculptor born in China, sought political asylum in Australia from 1990. Known for porcelain, cloisonne and concrete body casts. Xian was the recipient of the National Gallery of Australia’s inaugural National Sculpture Prize (2001) and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (2009).
exhibited at
Clay Dynasty
Date
11 October 2021 - 29 January 2022
Place
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
Description

An exhibition of three generations of studio ceramics in Australia, from the 1960s when potters were influenced by Bernard Leach’s understanding of Japanese aesthetics, to a more liberated creative approach.
It was drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Tags
ceramcis, studio potters
Website
https://www.maas.museum/event/clay-dynasty/
exhibited at
Ah Xian: Metaphysica
Date
1 April 2013 - 1 August 2014
Place
Regional Galleries of Qld.
Description

Regional touring exhibition

Website
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/touring/ah_xian
exhibited at
Ah Xian
Date
2003
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

An exhibition featuring sculpture, including a life-size cloisonne enamel sculpture and busts in traditional lacquer-work and jade, together with an earlier group of porcelain busts. Accompanied by an exhibition catalogue: Ah Xian, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2003 ISBN 1876509791

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Solo Survey, Sculpture
exhibited at
China Reconfigured: The Art of Ah Xian
Date
1 January 2002
Place
Asia Society Gallery, New York, USA
Description

Solo exhibition

Website
http://asiasociety.org/arts/asia-society-museum/past-exhibitions/china-reconfigured-art-ah-xian
exhibited at
China, China: a series of works in porcelain by Ah Xian
Date
2000
Place
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. An exhibition of porcelain figures decorated using techniques researched while Ah Xian spent 9 months in Jing De Zhen, Jiangxi Province in China. Exhibition Catalogue:
China China / Axian. [Sydney: Ah Xian], 2000
64 p : col ill ; 21 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Ceramics
exhibited at
Above and Beyond: Austral/Asian Interactions
Date
1 January 1996
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic.
Website
https://www.accaonline.org.au/
exhibited at
Chinese New Wave
Date
1992
Place
Cast at Arthouse, Launceston, TAS, Australia
Description

The work of eight Chinese artists, four living and working in Beijing, four living and working in Australia. The artists were Wang Youshen, Da Gong, Li Yan, Ku Xueming, Li Yong-Bin, Ah Xian, Guan Wei, Lin Chunyan, Lui Xiaoxian. Source: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.

Tags
Group exhibition