'I tried to borrow from the aesthetic language of Chinese ancestors, using pencils, charcoal pens, pens, ink, acrylic, house paint and; I use dense and distorted brush strokes and; I combined emotional figures with stone drum writing, the words depicted are isolated on a shadow background...'
Artist Bio
AnnLin is a self-taught visual artist and writer, whose paintings are driven by and drawn from a range of influences which include: collages, and public artworks, graffiti, aspects of street art, contemporary art, abstract &experimental art. She adopts critical thought as an instrumental aspect of art creation.
AnnLin (b.1963, China) has lived in Sydney for 33 years. She graduated with a Diploma in Commerce from the University of NSW. She is a contemporary artist with a unique style. She has an accounting background. Ann Lin's artwork and published novels reflect both an acceptance and rejection of her interlocking ethnic, cultural and social identities.
As a writer, AnnLin started writing prose for the newspapers in Mainland China in 1984.
Book 《青草地》 (“Qing Cao Di”) (group, with some other writers, prose) published in 1997 by Chinese publisher in mainland China,
Novel, Songs Of The Chu 《楚歌》,published by Otherland Australia, as a special edition of Otherland, No.14,2011 and then published by Bai Hua Zhou 《百花洲出版社》, called 《金合欢爱人》 (“Jin He huan AiRen”) in the following year in mainland China.
Novel, Jie Jie 《姐姐》,published by Jiang Xin people’s Publishing House（江西人民出版 社）in mainland China on October 2017.
Artist Bio
AnnLin is a self-taught visual artist and writer, whose paintings are driven by and drawn from a range of influences which include: collages, and public artworks, graffiti, aspects of street art, contemporary art, abstract &experimental art. She adopts critical thought as an instrumental aspect of art creation.
AnnLin (b.1963, China) has lived in Sydney for 33 years. She graduated with a Diploma in Commerce from the University of NSW. She is a contemporary artist with a unique style. She has an accounting background. Ann Lin's artwork and published novels reflect both an acceptance and rejection of her interlocking ethnic, cultural and social identities.
As a writer, AnnLin started writing prose for the newspapers in Mainland China in 1984.
Book 《青草地》 (“Qing Cao Di”) (group, with some other writers, prose) published in 1997 by Chinese publisher in mainland China,
Novel, Songs Of The Chu 《楚歌》,published by Otherland Australia, as a special edition of Otherland, No.14,2011 and then published by Bai Hua Zhou 《百花洲出版社》, called 《金合欢爱人》 (“Jin He huan AiRen”) in the following year in mainland China.
Novel, Jie Jie 《姐姐》,published by Jiang Xin people’s Publishing House（江西人民出版 社）in mainland China on October 2017.
