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25.01.2022 Selby Ginn is the Australian artist currently in residence with ACAF in Shanghai. Perhaps best known internationally for her work featured in the Australian contribution to the 55th Venice Biennale, Personal Structures: Time Space Existence, where she exhibited a suspended leather figure in an exhibit that also included work by Australian artists Sally Gabori, Yhonnie Scarce, Dale Frank and Sam Jinks and international artists Yoko Ono, Per Hess, Ben Vautier and Yang Fan. Sel...by has also exhibited extensively in the USA, Canada and Australia. Born Devonport, Selby specialises in process-based and installation artworks, which combine found objects, sculpture, performance, painting and drawing. Her art is an interpretive visual language. It is a dialogue that describes the cycles of human experience and references time, the human form, mythology, ritual and symbols. Drawing upon the idea of the cyclical experience of time and mortality, her recent sculptures use the outer skin of leather hides, a material that undergoes this natural process. She re-appropriates the leather by cutting it, punching holes into it, and then weaving it onto sculptural forms, literally making one skin from many.

24.01.2022 While Selby Ginn is participating in ACAFs residency program in Shanghai, she is also taking part in the Arts Can Do program. Selby reports on her experiences so far: "The children were very shy at the beginning of the workshop, but as we progress they appear to gain confidence and more trust in what we are doing. They take such pride in every task when we are in class, their willingness to participate in all aspects of the workshop whether it be painting, visualising, sewing..., cutting or cleaning is always approached with positivity and fun as they pitch in and help. They are so bright with energy they are always asking engaging questions about our projects, it is through this desire for knowledge that I have found that we are able to communicate through simple sign language and body language and of course the translators and volunteers are always relaying information back and forth from one student to the next. It is an amazing feeling to finish a day with the children, it is a full of creativity, learning and happiness, when a project is finished a sense of achievement is felt throughout the room and we are usually all smiling at each other." Learn more about Arts Can Do here: http://acaf.org.au/en/about/about_arts_can_do/

10.01.2022 SHANGHAI RESIDENCY 2015-2016 APPLICATION OPENS An ACAF Residency provides Australian artists with brand new living accommodation and studio space in one of Shanghai’s thriving art communities. Residency is for up to three months. Full support for translation, local travel and introductions to fellow artists, galleries and dealers is provided by ACAF. Artists are expected to take part in the Arts Can Do workshops and to arrange travel to China. Schedules are negotiated to suit... the creative or research needs of the artist. ACAF residencies are an unique opportunity to live and work in the dynamic art world of China and to form relationships with Chinese artists and galleries while making a real contribution to Chinese society through Arts Can Do. If you would like to take up an ACAF residence in Shanghai then please send an Artist CV and a proposal for how you would spend your time in China and how it will contribute to your art. Apply to: Wendy Lee, [email protected]

06.01.2022 The Australian artists who workshops at Arts Can Do are supported by local Shanghai volunteers. Many of these are teachers and university students. They give their time freely every week and without their generous help we could not operate. Derek is one of the volunteers and here he explains how he sees the work and how the children have asked him to record their work. "It is a really unique and meaningful experience for me at Jiuqian today as a translator. The current art cl...ass is about soft sculpture and is taught by Ms. Selby Ginn. Kids at Jiuqian were asked to complete their work from last week and start a new work which is to make a pair of eyes. It required lots of time and efforts that all children were very concentrated. What's more, children was asked to write something about their last works, mainly about their inspiration and meaning of them. Looking at their words, I was quite surprised that these children were full of imagination and creativity, as well as integrity and altruism." See more

06.01.2022 ACAF is proudly sponsoring the participation of Hong Kong Chinese installation artist Movana Chen. Opening on 27 February at the Frankston Art Centre, Marco Polo in Piñata, is an opportunity for a fresh look at the universal relationships between cultures and at the work of highly imaginative artists.