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Current exhibition

“Lumen” – March – August 2021

From the blindingly brilliant to the dim and diffused, White Rabbit’s new exhibition looks to the light to reveal the overlooked and intangible. With works by more than 25 artists from China and Taiwan, visitors will traverse harsh fluorescents, digital realties and literal cracks of lightning to uncover the invisible architecture that shapes our world.

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For the installation ‘Seven Sparrow’s, Liu use

For the installation ‘Seven Sparrow’s, Liu used the neihua technique to paint six sparrows and one man – bound and suspended – on the inside of explosion-proof lamps. Liu chose light fittings to, “suggest revelation of secrets”. ‘Seven Sparrows’ references Mao’s ill-fated 1958 ‘Four Pests’ campaign, where farmers were called upon to kill sparrows to prevent them from eating the crops. The environmental dynamics of the period suggest a congruence between violence among human beings and violence by humans towards the non-human world. When the Chinese people mistreated each other through suppression of intellectual freedoms, tyrannical utopianism, political labelling, ostracism, punishment, terror and forcible relocations; they also tended to treat nature badly.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. The exhibition will run until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit!

Liu Zhuoquan, Seven Sparrows, 2011, Chinese pigment on glass fittings and glass bottles, 8 pieces, dimensions variable

📸 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Chen Wei’s world is the urban landscape of hyper

Chen Wei’s world is the urban landscape of hypermodernity, of flickering neon, sinister shadows, smog haze and elevated freeways. Chinese characters in the night sky glow with a promise of modern luxury, yet watchful cameras attached to street lamps remind us that no-one walks these streets unseen. These photographs of apparently real places are a clever illusion – they are in fact sets constructed in the artist’s studio.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Please, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. The exhibition will run until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit! Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure.

Chen Wei, Today is Unsuitable for Shooting, 2013, archival inkjet print, 100 x 125cm
Chen Wei, Future Modern, 2014, archival inkjet print, 100 x 125cm

⚡ Danger Danger ⚡ Thanks again to all our vi

⚡ Danger Danger ⚡ Thanks again to all our visitors for sharing these great photos! Remember we are organising a special reward for the most popular visitor pictures of LUMEN, so keep those hashtags coming! You've gotta be in it to win it! 😉

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Big love to everyone for sharing their thoughts an

Big love to everyone for sharing their thoughts and photographs of our current exhibition LUMEN 💕 We are organising a special reward for the most popular visitor pictures of LUMEN, so remember to use the hashtag #whiterabbitgallery 😉

LUMEN will be open until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit!

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When a visitor walks through the sensory field of

When a visitor walks through the sensory field of ‘Unreal Ink’, the space underneath and around their feet will blossom into an array of multicoloured ink splotches. The artwork consists of a computer and a number of concealed sensors. When the sensors detect movement in the space, it activates software that projects an image of ink droplets and fog onto the floor.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

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Wang Po-Yu, Unreal Ink, 2014, interactive video installation – projector, computer, LCDs, speakers, dimensions variable

Join us for a boozy Sunday brunch 🥂🍺 We ha

Join us for a boozy Sunday brunch 🥂🍺 We have a variety of beers, wines and Chinese teas and we also have a variety of handmade dumplings to suit everyone: traditional, vegetarian, gluten free and vegan.

Our teahouse is open today, for food from 11.00am - 3.30pm and tea until 4.00pm. Capacity is limited at the moment, so please wait to be greeted by a staff member when you arrive. Thanks!

We love Chen Chen and Kai Williams 😍 Find a v

We love Chen Chen and Kai Williams 😍 Find a variety of their designs in our Gallery Shop, including this bank robbing vase! The Arm Vase with a banker bag stuffed with 💵 were made in edition of 200... We've got 4 in store so get in quick!

Our gallery gift shop is open until 5pm today, see you soon!

Shyu Ruey-Shiann identifies ‘Writer’s Vessel’ as one of the pieces that best expresses his artistic sense. “The feathers represent old-style quill pens”, Shyu says, “the idea of the work being to suggest traveling writers and their rambling hearts.” A motor turns them like a wheel, so that a kind of visual poetry is created by the feather quills scratching over a metal plate on the floor. In this way, the invisible, magical flow of energy in the act of writing is granted a visual depiction.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Please, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. The exhibition will run until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit! Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure.

Shyu Ruey-Shiann, Writer’s Vessel, 1997-2012, copper tube, pigeon feathers, metal bicycle rim, motor, 30 x 420 x200cm

Li Hui was a conceptual artist who worked within t

Li Hui was a conceptual artist who worked within the confines of both sculpture and installation, the defining aspect of his practice being his fascination with lights and lasers. He fused art with science and technology to convey ideas about human perception and experience. His art focuses on the relationship between human behaviours and the exterior world.
Presented in a small dark space, the installation ‘Cage’ comprises of green iodide lasers and a fog machine, creating two virtual grided enclosures. The cages alternate at random intervals, trapping and releasing audience members at any given moment.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Li Hui, Cage, 2006-14, green iodine lasers, fog machine, dimensions variable

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Let Yao Chung-Han's light shine upon you 💡✨ Amazing shot by Eugene David Grey @eugenedavidgrey 🤯

‘DzDz’ blurs the boundary between sound installation and live performance. By walking in the installation set up with sensor lights and sound devices, visitors are invited to stage their own ‘live performance’, interacting with light beams and the sounds they create. The viewer activates the artwork and becomes part of the dialogue that involves creative participation, illustrating how we interact and adapt with a continuously evolving environment. The audience becomes fundamental to both the creation of the art and the enjoyment of the work.

We are open today from 10am-5pm, come for a visit! Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a slight wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Yao Chung-Han, DzDz, 2015, electronic devices, fluorescent lamps, 500 x 152 x 313cm

‘Beyond the Frame’ is an interactive artwork c

‘Beyond the Frame’ is an interactive artwork comprising of four animations on screens and four correlating touchpads. Each screen correlates to one of the four plants of virtue from traditional Chinese culture - bamboo, chrysanthemum, ground orchid and plum blossom. By engaging with the touchpads, viewers trigger an animation sequence on the corresponding screens. Without interaction, the simulations still slowly change, following the systems of nature, like wind and gravity. The colourful butterfly shuttling across the four screens, is a metaphor of in the artist’s subconscious mind of his infinite exploration in term of spatial and timely of the cultural heritage. 🦋 🌼

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Please, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. The exhibition will run until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit! Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure.

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Lin Juin-Ting, Beyond the Frame, 2006, Interactive video installation, four screens, four touch pads

The collective LuxuryLogico was formed on the 1st

The collective LuxuryLogico was formed on the 1st of January 2010 by four Taiwanese artists. Previously they had worked as two separate collectives: Chang Keng-Hau and Chang Geng-Hwa’s Luxury Bros, and Ken Chen and Llunc Lin’s Logico.
‘Solar’ is a circular installation comprising of hundreds of lamps, controlled by a computer program. The configuration of the recycled household lights creates a sun-like orb that alternates and flickers in its pattern of illumination. LuxuryLogico say, “the dimming and brightening of light speaks of the unknown and uncertainty of the remote sun.”

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

LuxuryLogico, Solar, 2010, lampshades and sockets, LED lights, wire electronic chips, computer, MaxMSP programming, 350 x 350 x 45cm

Our Chinese Teahouse has a variety of handmade dum

Our Chinese Teahouse has a variety of handmade dumplings to suit everyone: traditional, vegetarian, gluten free and vegan! If you’re not too hungry, we also have snack and dip plates! 🥟✨

Our Teahouse is open today, for food until 3.30pm and tea until 4.00pm. Capacity is limited at the moment, so please wait to be seated when you arrive. Thank you!

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

“The idea for the ‘Original’ series came fro

“The idea for the ‘Original’ series came from my graduation work in 2012. I chose cells as my theme, because I felt live-cell studies could be a good way of exploring and understanding this world and the life and death of a person or a plant.
‘Original’ was an extension of earlier research I had done. It is meant to be visually attractive. Life is beautiful, just like what you see under the microscope. Every life is important, but we are so busy creating and destroying animal and plant life that we tend to overlook this fact. I hope this work will encourage viewers to love their life and to treat all life forms with respect.” Yang Xin

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Please, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. The exhibition will run until August 1st, so there is still plenty of time to visit! Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure.

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Yang Xin, Original 5, 2015, organic and mineral materials on acrylic, lightbox, 120 x 120cm

The Queen herself @fantasiatowersofficial at White

The Queen herself @fantasiatowersofficial at White Rabbit Gallery! Just when we thought LUMEN couldn't get any hotter⚡🔥🥵 Shot by @matthewherrophotography 📷

If you want to share your shots with us, simply use the hashtag #whiterabbitgallery ✨ Hot Tip: We are organising a special reward for the most popular visitor pictures of LUMEN, so keep those hashtags coming! 😉

Judith Neilson’s ‘Ming and the White Rabbit’

Judith Neilson’s ‘Ming and the White Rabbit’ book is available for purchase online! Click on the link in our bio and select 'Amazon AU - Purchase White Rabbit Stock Online' to find it 🐇
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In Ming and the White Rabbit, Judith Neilson tells the story of a Chinese orphan who rebuilds her broken world with the help of a magical rabbit and a wonderful new family of artists. These engaging characters - passionate, inventive, funny, philosophical - embody all the qualities that make Chinese contemporary art so compelling. On May 12th, 2008, the lives and dreams of many Chinese families were destroyed in a sudden disaster. Ming is their voice. Real friends responded with unhesitating kindness and compassion, giving in ways they had not considered before. For victims, their lives in turmoil, this unselfish generosity was all they had. Written for children and adults, art fans and newcomers to art, Ming is a touching human story that invites us to see the world and artistic creation with fresh eyes. The exquisite sepia illustrations of Wang Xianming make it a work of art in its own right.

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Written by Judith Neilson
Illustrations by Wang Xianming

To make the installation ‘Karesansui’, aaajiao

To make the installation ‘Karesansui’, aaajiao fed a digital drawing of a traditional Zen garden through his algorithm to create the oddly stunted growths that occupy the gallery. For aaajiao, the work is about the merging of the virtual and the real, via the use of image and specifically the concept of rock formations. His series uncovers the contemporary phenomena of no longer being able to clearly distinguish between online and offline.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

Aaajiao, Karesansui, 2015, synthetic foam, sponge, metal supports, dimensions variable

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Start your weekend refreshed! Our Lychee Iced Tea

Start your weekend refreshed! Our Lychee Iced Tea or a glass of wine will certainly do the job 😉🍹 Our Teahouse also has a variety of Chinese teas and handmade dumplings to suit everyone! If you’re not too hungry, we also have snack and dip plates.

Our Teahouse is open today, for food from 11.00am – 3.30pm and tea until 4.00pm. Capacity is limited at the moment, so please wait for a staff member to seat you. No bookings. Thank you!

Modern techniques and materials have had a strong

Modern techniques and materials have had a strong influence on Tianzhuo Chen’s art practice, and his works are filled with hyper-modern consumer references. Wealth is the new God, and pop icons are the idols that transcend cultural borders.
‘Om’ is a popular word and symbol in contemporary art. This mystical and sacred syllable originated from Hinduism, but over time has become synonymous with eastern spirituality, meditation and the concept of peace. It is the one eternal syllable of all that exists. Tianzhuo Chen plays with the idea that we - himself included! - are all as fundamentally polytheistic as any Hindu.

See 'OM' floating over our Gallery Giftshop! We are open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Tianzhuo Chen, OM, 2016, LED lights, stainless steel, 140 x 302 x 25cm

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

‘Head Without a Brain 3’ and ‘5’ are digit

‘Head Without a Brain 3’ and ‘5’ are digitally rendered images of forest scenes presented on lightboxes. Despite looking like photographs of overgrown forest-scapes, on closer inspection, the illusion of reality dissolves and they reveal themselves as painstakingly created digital environments. Zhu deliberately chooses to portray neutral subject matter, such as landscapes to rid us of any associated feelings and emotions towards images which might have influence us. Head without Brain addresses the relationship between the physical space that contains the body and the virtual space occupied by text and images.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Zhu Changquan, Head Without Brain 3, 2016-17, digital print on lightbox, 160 x 120cm
Zhu Changquan, Head Without Brain 5, 2016-17, digital print on lightbox, 120 x 160cm

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

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