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Chunxiao Qu

Australia

Chunxiao Qu is an artist and published poet whose work folds pointed humour into conceptual making with irreverence and serious intent. Her wide-ranging practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, neons, print-making, poetry and fashion. Born in China, she lives and works in Melbourne and holds Honours of Fine Art (First-Class) from Monash University, Melbourne. Both her poetry and art embrace play in language, provoking her audience and testing truisms regarding art and life. Her ‘tributes’ to conceptual artists copy and adapt key works in art history while shifting meaning beyond satire. Humour’s tricks of contrast and surprise are employed yet irony lives side-by-side with sincerity, as bedfellows in disguise.