Fairweather and China

Claire Roberts is an ARC Future Fellow, art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary Chinese art, and the cultural flows between Australia and Asia. She is Associate Professor of Art History and Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Roberts’ curated exhibitions include ‘Xiao Lu- Impossible Dialogue’ at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, ‘Go Figure- Contemporary Chinese Portraiture’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and ‘Other Histories- Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Her books include Friendship in Art- Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), Photography and China (Reaktion Books, 2013) and Ian Fairweather- A Life in Letters, edited with John Thompson (Text Publishing, 2019).