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An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer
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| Image credits: Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Aflame, 2023. Courtesy the artist. |
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🔥 Happy Lunar New Year!
Celebrate Lunar New Year with us on Friday 13 February, 6–8pm, as 4A welcomes the Year of the Fire Horse with the opening night of a major exhibition in 4A’s newly renovated space.
The Year of the Fire Horse marks a time of new beginnings, clearer direction and renewed momentum. The exhibition titled ‘An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer’ centers on moments of letting go and renewal, focusing on quiet, healing transitions that carry us from one cycle into the next.
Bringing together Asian Australian and Asian artists, the exhibition moves between family, memory and care. Through newly commissioned works alongside key recent pieces, it unfolds across video, installation, sculpture and material based practices. Drawing on ritual, fire and acts of offering, the works approach transformation as something lived and felt, grounded in remembrance, care and the decision to keep moving forward.
The opening night will feature a DJ set by Maggie Tra, carrying the night into a shared celebration.
Artists Choy Ka Fai Casey Chen WeiZen Ho Emma Pham Jason Phu Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
📌 An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer 13 February – 29 March 2026 Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
📍4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181–187 Hay St, Haymarket, Warrane / Sydney NSW 2000
🎟️ Free entry |
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| Image credits: Headshot of Maggie Tra, photo by the artist. |
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| Opening Night
Who: Celebrations featuring DJ Maggie Tra 💥🎧🔊
When: Friday, 13 February, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Where:
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181-187 Hay St, Haymarket Warrane/Sydney |
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| Image credits: WeiZen Ho, ‘Purge II’ for Unbroken Gestures, a Willoughby City Council curated group exhibition, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood. 29 Aug - 29 Sept 2024. Photo Samuel James. |
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WeiZen Ho will be embarking on ritual cleansing performances throughout the duration of An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer. Join us each Saturday to reflect on 4A’s bespoke building transformations, as WeiZen performs with demolition material remnants from 4A recent renovations. 🎋
Artists WeiZen Ho
📌 Performance activations 13 February – 29 March 2026 Weekly on Saturday
📍4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181–187 Hay St, Haymarket, Warrane / Sydney NSW 2000
🎟️ Free entry |
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| Image credits: Jason Phu, Procession in the warming light, Procession in the rising darkness, 2019. |
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| The 4A new year celebrations will spill onto the streets of Haymarket with a community banner parade led by artist Jason Phu and friends from The Kogarah Storehouse, including the Chinese Seniors Group, Indonesian Activity Group and TENUN Art Group. Carried through Haymarket/Chinatown, the banner parade transforms our streets into a collective expression of culture, movement and joy. 🏮
Artists Jason Phu with The Kogarah Storehouse Friends
📌 Street Banner Parade Saturday 28 February, 12:00pm
📍Haymarket and Chinatown streets
🎟️ Free entry |
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| Image credits: Dr Christian Thompson AO, House of Gold Chapter 12 (Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo), 2024. |
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| House of Gold is a commissioned body of work by 4A, that centres the unique perspective of Dr Christian Thompson AO, an artist of Bidjara and Chinese heritage. Thompson's work is renowned for its powerful exploration of identity, history, and the blending of cultures, making this exhibition not only a profound artistic statement but also an important educational tool for audiences across regional Australia.
The series was first presented at 4A from April to June 2024, where it was warmly received by audiences and critics alike.
The tour of House of Gold over four years from 2025 to 2028 will bring this significant narrative to a broader audience, allowing regional communities to engage with the complexities of Australia's multicultural past and present. The exhibition's exploration of the intersections between Bidjara and Chinese identities offers a unique opportunity for reflection and dialogue, particularly in regions where such conversations are often less prominent.
The House of Gold exhibition will tour key regional and remote areas of Australia with significant ties to early gold rush history. From 2025 to 2028, the tour will include Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Cairns Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Qantas Founders Museum Longreach, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Bunjil Place, and the Plimsoll Gallery at the University of Tasmania.
Artists Dr Christian Thompson AO
📌 House of Gold – Touring 06 February 2026 – 28 March 2026 Saturday 28 February, 12:00pm
📍Manning Regional Art Gallery 12 Macquarie St, Taree NSW 2430
🎟️ Free entry |
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| Image credits: Infinite Scroll 荧屏沉溺 exhibition view, 2025, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, Image credit: David James, Courtesy of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney. |
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| In collaboration with the Chau Chak Wing Museum at The University of Sydney, Infinite Scroll 荧屏沉溺 aims to provide insight into Chinese artistic output and the diversity and dynamism of China and the Chinese diaspora.
The exhibition brings together 3 Chinese artists who use humour and interactivity to examine the politics of online life: Xia Han, Gao Hang, Ye Funa.
Their works parody and remix online cultures, often using AI generated avatars and digital graphics to examine how users are shaped by – and push back against – the digital platforms they inhabit. One artwork uses the format of a Pokémon-style video game to critique the spectacle of the global art market, while others works reflect on digital acceleration and the tension between speed, consumption, and meaning in online environments.
Together these artists explore how the design of digital interfaces – especially the endlessly refreshing scroll – influences not just what we see but how and why we see it.
Artists Xia Han Gao Hang Ye Funa
📌 Infinite Scroll 荧屏沉溺 27 September 2025 - 26 July 2026 Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 4pm Closed on Public Holidays
📍Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/
🎟️ Free entry |
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