Louise Zhang 




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See you in Hell (Blacktown)
Blacktown Arts
9 July – 21 September 2024
Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford

See You in Hell presents a collection of playful and subversive works by artists Louise Zhang and Jess Bradford exploring Chinese concepts of the afterlife.

Audiences will journey through the exhibition space encountering various hellscapes and mythology presented in painting, sculptural installation and video.

Diyu, the Chinese Buddhist concept of Hell, is both a starting point and a meeting place for the artists to explore personal experiences and complex relationships to their shared Chinese cultural heritage as ‘third culture kids’. The exhibition is a bridge between their practices, and includes individual and collaborative works.

Download the original See you in Hell exhibition catalogue here courtesy of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.

Special thanks to Dylan Batty and Talia Smith.

Courtesy of Jennifer Leahy Silversalt Photography



Map of Diyu, acrylic on linen, 152 x 132cm, 2024
Wisteria, sprit and stone, acrylic and oil on linen, 152 x 132cm, 2024
Fueling the burning pillar, acrylic and oil on linen, 82 x 62cm, 2024
The Iris and ghost, acrylic on linen, 66 x 36cm, 2024
See you at Yellow Spring acrylic on linen, 103 x 61cm, 2024
See you at Yellow Spring (installation view)
Blood pool with lotuses, acrylic on linen, 51 x 41cm, 2024
Immortality peaches with peach wood, acrylic and oil on linen, 66 x 36cm, 2024
Ghost/spirit, acrylic on linen, 51 x 41cm, 2024
Intestines acrylic and oil on linen, 66 x 36cm, 2024
If i get to heaven, I want to meet Old Man of the South Pole. He's head looks like a peach. Maybe it also tastes like it, acrylic on linen, 66 x 36cm, 2024
The ghost king waved the willow branch, and the soul was reborn, acrylic on linen, 41 x 31cm, 2024
The plumbing in china can't handle white peoples poops. the demons reject their girth, acrylic on linen, 41 x 31cm, 2024
Dismemberment, acrylic on board, 40 x 25cm, 2024


Karma Mirror, pastel and acrylic on board, 100 x 100cm, 2024, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nature cutting straight through me, pastel and acrylic on board, 82 x 62cm, 2024, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
And again, within the frozen, pastel and acrylic on board, 40 x 35cm, 2024, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Mountain of heads, pastel and acrylic on board, 40 x 35cm, 2024, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Words straight out of my mouth, mixed media on linen, 41 x 51cm, 2024, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford


Ox head, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 100cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Horse Face, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 100cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford


Nothing to forgive #1, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #2, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #3, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #4, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #5, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #6, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #7, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #8, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #9, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #10, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #11, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #12, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #13, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #14, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford
Nothing to forgive #15, ink and acrylic on paper, 200 x 140cm, Louise Zhang & Jess Bradford

I acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal People as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work.  I pay my respect to their Elders past and present.