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Breathe Artist Residency Programme, Chongqing

Chinese Arts Centre and 501 Artspace are collaborating to open up the Breathe Artist in Residency Programme, Chongqing. The programme is open to all artists and will facilitate one to three month at 501 Artspace, Chongqing for successful applicants.

The Breathe residency gives artists the time to contemplate and reflect on their practice. There is no pressure to create a finished work however artists are expected to work productively and engage with their environment. At the end of the residency will host an Open Studio which is the chance to engage with the public and discuss their practice. The format of the Open Studio is completely flexible and could take the form of a hung exhibition, artists talk, performance or presentation of work in progress.

501 Artspace will provide a studio and apartment and there will be support and networking opportunities throughout the residency. Artists will be required to fund some of the costs of the residency themselves.

To apply please submit:
  • CV
  • Outline of the how the residency will develop your practice and what you would do with the residency (maximum 2 sides A4)
  • Up to 12 images and/or video (up to 5 minutes) on CD/DVD
  • Any other supporting material
Please send applications to:

Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Manchester M4 1EU

Deadline for applications is 30 June 2008

For more information email info@chinese-arts-centre.org

Please note that whilst every endeavour will be made to return the materials submitted, Chinese Arts Centre cannot take any responsibility for loss or damage. Please indicate if we are able to keep a selection of material for our database.Do not send original artwork. Chinese Arts Centre will accept no responsibility for any damage caused to original artwork.



Executive Director - Chinatown Arts Space

Chinatown Arts Space is seeking to recruit an Executive Director.
The post holder will be required to work 30 hours per week.
Salary range is from £32 - 35K pro rota, depending upon experience.

For more information on the role and the type of person Chinatown Arts Space is looking for, please log on to
www.chinatownartsspace.com/executivedirector

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 27th May at 5pm.


Chinese Arts Centre awarded EU funding

Chinese Arts Centre have been awarded 135,000 Euros to create a touring exhibition between Chinese Arts Centre, 501 Artspace in Chongqing, China and Infra Arts in France and Sweden. This exciting visual arts project will take place in 2009/10 and create cultural links between the East and West.


First Step - Wuon Gean Ho


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Wuon Gean Ho



Life, death, memories and nostalgia are recurrent themes in much of Wuon Gean Ho’s work. As a practising vet, she sees death on a daily basis, and she has been moved to make work that shows her response to this. Wuon Gean Ho generates a storyline in response to events or surroundings and then makes a series of prints or bodies of work. Years later she may find herself coming back to old themes, as new ideas reassert themselves in her previous internal dialogue. The prints on exhibition in ‘First Step’ illustrate one such circle.

Wuon Gean Ho graduated with a BA in History of Art, and a professional licence as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. In between residencies in the US and Japan, she bases herself in London, working part time as a vet and making art part time in her studio in East London.

For more information visit wuongean.com or wgprints.tumblr.com