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An invited solo exhibition at La Perouse Museum, from 9 September 2023 to 28 January 2024.

Mei Zhao explores the dynamic place that was 1930s La Perouse from a wholly new perspective and brings to life the under-represented influence of early Chinese settlers on the Australian landscape.

Mei was invited to show at the Bayview as her paintings, mixed media and installation highlight an aspect of Happy Valley previously unseen in the La Perouse Museum: that of the Chinese immigrants who made it their home. The exhibition reflects on Mei's own migrant experience and transforms geographic features into intertwined colours, forms and patterns using methods inspired by Chinese landscape painting, Indigenous art, and abstract expressionism.

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