Spotlight Display

January 2025 – June 2025.

Join us in celebrating the ‘Year of the Snake’ at Hurstville Museum & Gallery’s Spotlight display.

The Australian Chinese Paper Arts Club Inc. is a non-profit association which officially registered in 2019 and is coordinated by a talented group of Australian Chinese artists. As of 2025 the group has a total of 41 total members and 58 activators, who come from a variety of professions and careers, whilst participating freely within the art industry.  

One of the group’s first cultural projects was “Mobile Colour Plate: Art + Food”, which worked to promote multicultural integration, social connections, and community care of Chinese immigrants. The project involved coordinating outdoor sketching and painting, seminars, and creative artwork, as well as open studios, neighborhood gatherings and exhibitions. 
 
This display showcases a variety of paper, Textiles and sculptural works made by different group members including artworks by current group president Ginger Jingzhe Li. To celebrate the Year of the Snake for Lunar New Year 2025, the group has created unique artworks that feature the snake along with other Chinese zodiac creatures.

The display’s opening coincides with Council’s 2025 Lunar New Year festival on Saturday 1st of February and is a great opportunity to explore Chinese astrology and find out more about the work of this community group.  

Items in the Spotlight Display include (left to right):

• 4 Bottle Bums, Ginger Jingzhe Li, glass bottles. 

• Assortment of paper-cuttings and prints, Ginger Jingzhe Li.

• Red snake, Han Wang, paper-cutting, 2023.

• Silk embroidered fans, Keli Jia. 

 

Ginger Jingzhe Li

Ginger is an artist, Chinese writer, curator, and publisher. She is one of the founders of the Australian Chinese Heritage Paper Art Club Inc and helped to establish the art and cultural project “Mobile Colour Plate: Art + Food”.

Her work includes painting, drawing, paper-cutting, etching, ceramics and sculptural works, which have also been collected by China National Art Gallery in Beijing. Ginger also has a Master Degree in Art Administration from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
 

Han Wang

Han's work includes watercolour, ink and oil painting as well as drawing. Her interests include portraiture, human figures, line sketching and life drawing.

She has won awards in the Pyrmont Art prize in 2017 and 2018 and established her art studio and gallery in Ultimo in 2016 where she has shown her work in both group and solo exhibitions. 
 

Keli Jia

Since childhood, Keli has been interested in all kinds of art related to beauty, such as singing, dancing, drawing, painting, photography and planting flowers. After immigrating to Australia, her business has been associated with traditional Chinese culture, including fabrics, embroidery and tea art supplies. With her silk embroidery she has combined the traditional craft style with her own personal elegant style.