RITUAL HUNGRY GHOSTS FEASTS and GROUP SHOWS

Ritual Offerings (Hungry Ghosts Feasts) recalls the generosity and love expression by providing and sharing colourful ceramic cakes with friends and acquaintances.

Hungry Ghosts Party 2023 – Bankstown Art Center NSW

Hungry Ghost Party 2023 – Bankstown Art Center NSW

Hungry Ghosts Party 2023 – Bankstown Art Center NSW

Hungry Ghosts Party -2023 Bankstown Art Center NSW

Hungry Ghosts Party 2023 – Bankstown Art Center NSW

Ritual Ceng Beng 2023 – Incinerator Gallery Melbourne

Ritual High Tea with M and Sis 2018

Ritual Rainbow Cakes 2019

Ritual Wedding – Greenway Art Prize 2019

Ritual Gathering (Ceng Beng) – North Sydney Art Prize 2022

Ritual Mua Guek Jajan Pasar – Art Atrium Chrismast Show 2021

Ritual Pai Ti Kong 2021 – the churchie emerging art prize 202109 October–18 December 2021#thechurchie‘the churchie’ is one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging artists. Presented at the IMA since 2019, the finalists’ exhibition provides a survey of the compelling and diverse work being produced by emerging artists today.The Major Prize winner will receive a $15,000 non-acquisitive cash prize provided by long-standing sponsor BSPN Architecture, to be announced by a guest judge, Rhana Devenport ONZM, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, at the opening of the exhibition Friday 22 October 2021.The judge will also award a Special Commendation Prize of $5,000, sponsored by Fardoulys Constructions, as well as two $1,000 Commendation Prizes sponsored by Madison Cleaning Services. A People’s Choice Award of $3,000, also sponsored by Madison Cleaning Services, will be awarded by popular vote at the conclusion of the finalists’ exhibition.The finalists exhibition will be guest curated by artist, writer, and curator Grace Herbert in a role sponsored by Armitstead ART Consulting.ARTISTSAkil Ahamat, Tiyan Baker, Christopher Bassi, Leon Russell (Cameron) Black, Ohni Blu, Riana Head-Toussaint, Visaya Hoffie, Kait James, Alexa Malizon, Kyra Mancktelow, Ivy Minniecon, Nina Sanadze, Jayanto Tan, and Joanne WheelerCURATED BYGrace Herbert

Potluck Party: Pai Ti Kong Feast PARTY 09 October 2021 3–4.30pm Join us for a potluck party at the gallery drawing on artist Jayanto Tan‘s ceramic ‘soul foods’ in the churchie emerging art prize finalists’ exhibition. From locked down Sydney where the artist is based, Tan has curated a Pai Ti Kong feast of Nyonya food, inviting the IMA community to come together in the spirit of sharing and gathering. Tan says: “Silence is a place of great power and healing. I hope to create a ritual gathering feast as a family album. My family is scattered from Indonesia to Taiwan to China to Europe to here in Australia. And through the culture of sweet delicacies, I hope to celebrate and respect the ancestors of my family in a sharing way with the local community.“ Tan’s artwork in ‘the churchie’ was inspired by the myth and tradition of Pai Ti Kong (translated as ‘Praying [to] The Heaven God’) of his mother’s Hokkien ancestry. In this story Hokkien people escaped a violent invasion of their village by hiding in a sugarcane field and praying for their safety. When they survived the attack they emerged and honoured the Heaven God for keeping them safe through presenting offerings. Jayanto Tan was born and raised in a small town in North Sumatra, Indonesia. As a Chinese-Sumatran living in Sydney, his practice blends Eastern and Western mythologies with the reality of current events. His work has been shown at Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asia Art, the Australia-China Institute, the 66th Blake Prize, Incinerator Art Award, and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. He won the 11th Small Sculpture Greenway Art Prize. Tan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from National Art School, Sydney.