Our land No4

People will never forget the recent devastating bushfires, which caused so many property destroyed and animal deaths. The charred land, the charred trunks, and the still-smoked mountains. Scientists warned years ago that Australian bushfires would become much more dangerous due to climate change around 2020. We shouldn’t see this as just an Australian tragedy, a human interest story that will die out when the fires do. This has been a truly global tragedy, as we can see from the plumes of smoke that circumnavigated the earth and have emitted more CO2 than 100 countries. The body of work “Our land ” is based on the above reasons, I wish this work will arouse people's attention to the environment and a new understanding of the harmfulness of climate changing.

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Fangmin Wu is an award-winning artist based in Sydney whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in South Korea, New Zealand and China. Painting and drawing was his passion from an early age, He won his first art prize in provincial youth art competition in 1981, he was selected to be included in “A Great Biographic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Artists”. He engaged in printmaking during his early life in China, and has won numerous art prizes. He began his solo art exhibition in 1997 after graduating from Sydney College of Arts with Honours Degree in Visual Arts. In recent years, his works have been selected for several major art exhibitions both in Australia and internationally, including: “Coming Home” Beijing art exhibition, Blake Art Prize, St. George Art Prize, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Waverley Art Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award, First Chinese artistic achievement art exhibition, Clifton Art prize and Miradas international Art Prize. In 2018 he received highly commended prize at Bayside Art prize. In 2020 he won the first prize in drawing at the Liverpool art prize. In 2022 he won Werriwa Art Prize and the winner of Immunisation Coalition Art Prize .
In 2023, His work “Archie Roach”won a overall winner prize in 25th Liverpool art Exhibition. He has also been selected as a Bluethumb’s Top 10 Landscape Artists of 2023.

Fangmin's artistic creation is extensive, pays attention to international current affairs and reflects on social problems. Another of his interests is his landscape paintings. Australian countryside, the farms and villages are often the source of inspiration for his creations. He hope that his landscape paintings are not a simple copy of nature, they should be works with passion and personality, and bring a new and different world to the viewer. Fangmin's works are held in private and public collections in Australia, USA, UK, Brunei and China which including Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Australian National Gallery.