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First Uyghur art show attempts to tell a different Chinese story

Elizabeth Fortescue

Art’s role as a global ambassador has long been recognised, and so it is with Australia’s first exhibition of contemporary Uyghur art from China.

Borderlands, a solo exhibition of woollen felt and painted artworks by ethnic minority Uyghur artist Aniwar Mamat, will be opened by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday evening in Sydney.

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Elizabeth Fortescue writes the Saleroom column and about the visual arts. She was previously arts editor at The Daily Telegraph and is Australia correspondent for The Art Newspaper.

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