10-minute bites on Asian Art a worthy chew

Former Asialink director, Alison Carroll, walks us through Asian art in a new series screened on ABC1 that targets schools.
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Alison Carroll with Yorozu Tetsugoro’s Nude Beauty – on the road in her new series. Image: supplied. 

Getting your head around the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper (published October 2012) need not be such a brainteaser or logistical challenge. Just sit down to Alison Carroll’s new series A Journey Through Asian Art, which offers bite-sized in-roads to complex cultural nuances of our neighbouring Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines, to stars on the global art stage from China, Korea and Japan. 

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina