For Art Zone New Zealand Avenal McKinnon looks at Temporal Landscapes, on show in Beijing, China.

The breathtaking clarity of Martin Hill and Philippa Jones’ Wanaka-sourced Synergy, with a seemingly impossibly balanced circle of raupo stems, contrasted strikingly with the grey, industrial setting of Beijing’s 798 Art District. Their exhibition “Temporal Landscapes,” at the Inter Art Centre Gallery, curated by Na Risong, demonstrated the interest in China in these New Zealand Land artists – an interest which dates back to the Pingyao Photography Festival of 2014, when as part of the project “To Save a Forest” they received a Chinese award.

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