One of the most celebrated and sought after Australian artists of her generation, Lena Nydabi deceptively minimal paintings straddle the pure organic painted earth with sophisticated mark making at its very best.

As one of the most radical and contemporary artists from the Kimberley she has achieved almost cult status. Largely using a palate of black and white with degrees of greys she occasionally punctuates these with rich Kimberley ochre red and its shades of pinks. The fluidity and elegance of her work is sublime.

Lena Nyadbi born c. 1936, near Warnmarnjulugun lagoon, Western Australia is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from the Warmun Community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her two major dreamtime stories focus on the baramundi and spearhead country - Dayiwul Lirlmim, and details of her barramundi dreaming moving along the river are painted on the roof of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This painting installation can only be seen from the air, including the Eiffel Tower and Google Earth.

Born circa 1931, Barlinyin, East Kimberley Western Australia, Mabel Juli lives and works at the Warmun Community, East Kimberley, Western Australia. A senior and highly acknowledged artist Juli is best known for her signature "moon and star" paintings executed in natural ochres and pigments. The textural qualities of the ochres offer an addtional complexity to these deceptively simple paintings. Having shown with Seva Frangos Art in the very first exhibitions held in Melbourne and then Perth, Juli clearly assisted in establishing the benchmark for the quality and depth of the gallery's program.

Juli’s work is well represented in Australian public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Artbank, Sydney; and in her home State in the Berndt Museum, University of Western Australia; King Edward Memorial Hospital Collection; Parliament House Collection of Western Australia. Her works are also represented in the Perth-based Wesfarmers and Kerry Stokes collections, and in the Chartwell Collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand.

Huang Xu is a photographic artist living in Beijing. He is a graduate of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and began his career as a commercial photographer. As an artist, he has also created oil painting and produced sculptural installations.

Notions of waste and impermanence run through the work of Huang Xu. He creates a commentary though his work, which alludes to his relationship with everyday objects, the banal nature of aspects of contemporary Chinese life and the unwanted detritus that is all pervasive. He takes something, which is ordinary and mundane and is able to create an unexpectedly beautiful image. The plastic bag works are the best example of this.

Born in Shandong Province in 1974, Gao Ping is one of the many millions of Chinese immigrants who have moved from small provincial towns to the international metropolis of Beijing, where she lives and works. Ping has exhibited extensively in China and internationally. As an artist she takes refuge from the intense and dense city environments of Chinese life today through these personal reflections of domestic and modern life. The images are charming, exquisite, often poignant and thoroughly engaging.

Her paintings of objects and her images that capture the small isolated moments in people's lives are produced using traditional Chinese ink painting techniques and brushes. They are painted on rice paper and then mounted on silk, and the palette is highly restrained reflecting her response to the world at large. The light touch of the brush conveys a sense of impermanence – in relationships, household appliances, consumer goods, architectural structures, plant life. But this is no random mark-making, the placement of her subjects has been carefully considered against the empty background. There is no horizontal plane and hence no ‘anchor’. This devise could be interpreted as a metaphor for city living in the high density mass of Beijing.

Ping has since explored large scale paintings and these are in stark contrast to her small intimate paintings and drawings. They are abstracted and dense and equally compelling, confident and successful.

Born 1978, Fujian, China; Lives and works Xiamen and Beijing, China.

Zhou Hongbin’s focus is about new worlds, whether they are a retreat from daily life or contradicting our expectations about what are safe and comfortable environments. These meticulously constructed photographs echo traditional Chinese art yet their intellectual and visual content reinvents both tradition and utopia.

The personal, environmental and intellectual converge in these extraordinary and compelling photographic works are superbly reproduced. They are beautifully arranged and imagined, and they are bold and paradoxically engaging, as we are both drawn to the smallest details whilst contemplating this 'natural' world and universal fables.She wants to create an ideal world, a ‘Garden of Eden’, where she can retreat, avoid reality and contemplate a safer quieter life – her utopia. But all is an illusion as the serpent.