Tony Coleing: Peking duck duck duck

Tony Coleing Peking duck 4 - 25 August, 2018

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Sometime in the 1960s someone [no idea who] mentioned that China [The Dragon] had been asleep for a long time, and was about to wake up. I was curious about this and did a little research at the time and made some drawings, one which still exists. I didn’t think a lot more about it probably until the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 occurred.

From then on I have been watching events to do with the rise [awakening] of the dragon, which now appears to be fully awake. I believe China has had a significant influence on the whole of the world in all sorts of ways and will continue to do so My works in relation to China for the past few years are just a reflection of my thoughts on China’s influence on everything.

Tony Coleing, 2018

cat#5. Food bowl, 2015, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#6. Beware of red carpets, 2018, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#1. One day son, all this will be yours II, 2017, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#3. One day son, all this will be yours IV, 2017, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#2. One day son, all this will be yours III, 2017, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#4. We know where you are, 2016, digital image on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

cat#12. Untitled, 2017, digital image on canvas, 59 x 120 cm

cat#14. Noodles or Tofu?, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 61 x 91.4 cm

cat#9. Landscape, 2015, digital image on canvas, 140 x 350 cm

cat#11. Balancing act at the Chinese opera, 2015, digital image on canvas, 140 x 350 cm

cat#8. Waiting (export) landscapes, 2014, digital image on canvas,140 x 350 cm

cat#7. The time of the bun has come, 2014/15, digital image on canvas, 140 x 350 cm

cat#10. Up, up and away, 2014, digital image on canvas, 140 x 350 cm

cat#13. Light of my life, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 61 x 91.4 cm

Unnamed Aurora, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 61 x 91.4 cm

Hubble discovers new [hot] planet, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 40.7 x 61 cm

New galaxy, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 40.7 x 61 cm

Another Big Bang, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 40.7 x 61 cm

Parallel universe, 2017, digital image on aluminium, 40.7 x 61 cm

Made in China, died in Australia, 2018, digital image on aluminium, 30.5 x 45.7 cm

Not Made in China, 2018, digital image on aluminium, 30.5 x 45.7 cm

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