Concrete Playground

What brings together Wang Lei's paper dresses, Shi Jindian's sculpted wire, He An's glowing signs and an apartment doorway made from only fabric, sponge and thread by artist Gao Rong? Decade of the Rabbit, the current exhibition at Sydney's White Rabbit Gallery.

The name, Decade of the White Rabbit, has a few auspicious associations. 2011 is the year of the rabbit and ten years ago the White Rabbit Collection was established by Ken and Judith Nielson. The collection began with only a few works; now it claims more than 160 Chinese artists.

Thirty artists are represented in the current collection show and their artistic practices are as varied as painting, sculpture, installation, model-making, and the incredible fusion of all these things as seen in Yuan Jia's quirky 2010 wooden artwork, Runaway Table and His Duck.

Image: He An, What Makes Me Understand What I Know, 2009.