‘Big Voices’, State Library of Queensland Curator’s Tour of the Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM Children’s Art Archive. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
Today (14 April), artworks by young children from kindergartens and primary schools in Wuhan (China) and Brisbane (Australia) have been added to the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.
Between 1986 and 2016, artworks were collected from children across Australia, China and Vietnam. It was added to significantly in 2020, when Piscitelli initiated the new archive, Pandemic Picture Stories (June – July 2020), working alongside Professor Zhichao Chen in Wuhan.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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