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7 July - 8 August 2009
James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham

Visitor Information

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Due to essential maintenance at the Farnham campus, we regret that the James Hockey & Foyer Galleries will be closed on Saturday 8 August.

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Born 1956 in Lhasa, Tibet, Wu Sima grew up in a country mythologised for its spiritual wealth by much of the rest of the world. During his childhood and adolescence this land was undergoing radical and traumatic changes that its own leaders had hoped to be able to introduce peacefully and with the understanding and consent of its people. After graduating in 1973 from Lhasa Normal University, he continued working at the institution as a teacher of Arts while painting reflective and metaphorical watercolours, his favoured medium, and observing the changes and constancies in the culture of his homeland and their effects on the population.

Passionately engaged with the local art scene as well as the Chinese, he is a member of the Chinese Artists' Association and the China Ethnic Minorities Art Promotion Committee. He is director of the Tibet Artists' Association and holds the posts of President and advanced artist of Lhasa Artists' Association and Lhasa Language & Art Federation.

Lyrical and profoundly moving, his paintings were selected into the 8^th and 9^th National Arts Exhibitions and the first show of national small watercolours, the China Watercolour Painting Fine Arts Exhibition, where he won an award. During the 1980-s and 1990-s many of his paintings were selected for the China Watercolours Exhibitions, held in HangZhou. At the 3^rd and 4^th National Ethnic Minorities Art Shows Wu Sima won an Outstanding Award and the Bronze Medal. He also won the first Literary & Artistic Award of Holy Land, the creative fund award of Hanshuli.

The year 1994 saw him holding a solo exhibition of watercolour paintings in Lhasa. In 2007 he took up an invitation to show his evocative watercolours at The Sweet Tea House, the first contemporary Tibetan Art Gallery in London, England, launching further exhibitions in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Macao. 2007 also saw the publication of his book 'Wu Sima: Watercolour Art'.

The Sweet Tea House collaborated in presenting Wu Sima's painterly observations of a world in ecological and cultural peril at this current (2009) joint exhibition at the James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, Farnham together with John Allen's colourful and celebratory response to his travels in the Himalayas, a highly sensitive area of ecological world importance.

Cornelia G. Horl for the Sweet Tea House