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” I am very interested in the battle between figuration and abstraction.”

“It’s all about the horizon, and the ability to create an abstract colour field in the vertical sense, and a depth of space in the horizontal axis but from the viewer’s perspective…”

“To me this work sits somewhere between Howard Arkley’s celebration of suburbia and Robin Boyd’s contempt for it….”

“With my work, I propose that floral paintings involve the mirroring of time and dimensions beyond their symbols and icons.”

“Everything felt so cool and consolidated like there was some agreement amongst the art establishment of what is serious and what is not. Romantic Landscape painting was literally a no go zone, career suicide, so that appealed to me. What happened though is that I really came to love it and through some curious fate I ended up living in the Hudson Valley.”

Luise Guest speaks with Chen Qiulin about the intriguing connections between Sydney’s Chinatown and the inhabitants of Chongqing and Chengdu…
