Taking place in 14 cities around the world each year, the Affordable Art Fair hosted it’s third edition in Hong Kong from 22 to 24 May 2015. After a record attendance of 29,000 visitors in 2014, the 2015 fair featured over 130 local and international galleries at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Nock Art Foundation proudly announces Down Under, Up Here. Down Under, Up Here is the result of Michael Nock's continuing support for Australian artists discovering and subsequently depicting both Hong Kong and China. Encompassing a variety of generations using various vernaculars with paint on canvas, this exhibition not only intends to put forth a contemporary notion of Sino-Australian aesthetic relations, but also examines its own aesthetic prehistory. 

Featuring the work of: 
Elisabeth Cummings 
Peter Godwin
Euan Macleod
Luke Sciberras
Michael Nock
Tim Allen
 

One of the first exhibitions of its kind, featuring works of leading Burmese artists who endured and resisted censorship under the military regime.

For 50 years Burmese painters labored under strict state censorship. This exhibition will feature paintings produced under military governments from 1962 to 2011 and in the aftermath of the March 2011 transition to civilian rule. Visitors will enjoy a rare glimpse into the cultural community and mindset of artists operating under the mechanics of censorship. For many painters, this will be the first international exhibition of their work.

At a time when contemporary Burmese art is poised to follow China, Vietnam and other developing Asian countries into the international art market, it is important to understand the straightjacket of state control that existed until very recently. International art institutions such as the Guggenheim, the Singapore Art Museum, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum are already collecting Burmese art, but there has yet to be a major exhibition in Hong Kong showcasing established and emerging voices in the Burmese art scene.

Paintings that drew the attention of the Censorship Board will be displayed alongside paintings that escaped scrutiny through use of euphemisms or abstraction. Censorship in Burma often centered on color and format rather than ideology, and painters who used more modern, semi-abstract and abstract depictions faced great challenges as the Board favored more traditional and realist works. These paintings reflect Burma's changing landscape and society, and offer a unique opportunity to view the artistic traditions of a once-closed land.
 

Presented by the Nock Art Foundation in conjunction with Defiance Gallery, Sydney, The Painter's Journey brings together the work of two acclaimed Australian painters, Peter Godwin and Euan Macleod. This exhibition showcases work produced by the artists from their time spent working in Hong Kong and the Guilin mountains of Mainland China in early 2013 and 2014. This is the inaugural exhibition of a long-term project by the Nock Foundation that builds on the long-standing dialogue between Australian painting and the Chinese landscape.

PAO Gallery: Hong Kong Art Centre