Biography
Born London 1964. Self-taught.
Lives and works in Shanghai.
Selected Solo Exhibition
2009
‘Hello I’m not here’ Foundry Gallery (Shanghai, China)
‘Bird Project’ public installation at 425 Yanping Lu with Huang Xiao Kou (Shanghai, China)
2006
‘Fauna Nebula’ 1918 ArtSpace (Shanghai, China)
2004
‘Recent Paintings’ Brian Moore Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
‘Hobo Bonobo ’ Studio event for Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia)
Open Studio exhibition (Sydney, Australia)
2003
‘Mr & Mrs Dawn’ Somawo Warehouse (Sydney, Australia)
2001
‘Evil Chris and Other Stories‘ Hansen Gallery (Brooklyn, New York)
1999
‘Multiple Self-Portraits’ Oil Street Art Village (now Cattle Depot Art Village,Hong Kong)
Selected Group Exhibition
2009
The Artist Died Yesterday, Island 6 (Shanghai, China)
2007
Shanghai Art Fair, Australia Pavillion (Shanghai, China)
Representing Artist, Australia Pavillion, Shanghai Creative Week (Shanghai, China)
‘Extinction Denied’ Humane Society International (Sydney, Australia)
2006
Group Show, Australian-Asian Art Association – 4A Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
Group Exhibition, 1918 Artspace (Shanghai, China)
‘Ironic Expressionism’ Virginia Wilson Art (Sydney, Australia)
2005
‘Extinction Denied’ Humane Society International (Sydney, Australia).
Absolut Drawcard, National Art School, (Sydney, Australia).
2004
‘Extinction Denied’ Humane Society International (Sydney, Australia).
2003
‘With Anything Blank Around‘ The Ephemeral Holt Street Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
2001
‘New Paintings Of Paranoia‘ Hansen Gallery (Brooklyn, New York)
1999
‘Positive Null‘ (Oil St. Art Village, Hong Kong)
Commissions
Featured mural in Tsui Hark’s Hong Kong contemporary movie classic, ‘Time & Tide’.
Writing
Experimental novel titled ‘And Then’, 2009. Edition of 50 in private collections worldwide.
Poetry published in the first edition of writers journal, Truth, October 2009 and included in Sydney Writer’s Festival 2008
Bibliography
2006
Ironic Expressionism. Andrew Frost.
‘Aliens Emerge In Fauna Nebula Art’ Shanghai Daily. Zhou Tao.
Review. SH Magazine, Shanghai.
Review. Art & Mayhem.
2004
‘Undiscovered Artists – Ash Hempsall’ Profile in Australian Art Collector. Andrew Frost.
Exhibition review. Sydney, Australia. Artlife
2001
‘Contemporary Art in Brooklyn’ The Village Voice. Simon Galley.
1999
‘A Real Buzz’ The Hong Kong Standard. Stephen Ribet.
‘Whither Oil Street?’ South China Morning Post. Cameron Jenkins.
Various Chinese language newspapers and magazines covering Oil Street Art Village.
Work held in Private collections in UK, US, China, Japan, Canada and Australasia.
