Jingwei Bu, Prayer Dancer, 2019, performance documentation image. Photo: Skeat Yu

ABOUT

“ Art is my language, my country, my lover and my breath”

Jingwei Bu is a Chinese Australian artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She has lived in four countries and speaks three languages. With a practice spans from intuitive drawing, moving images, performance and installation, she explores the concept of time as a collaborator; as the subject of her work; and as a medium in itself. Influenced by Buddhist Chan philosophy and Taoist thought, her work is responsive, experimental, and participatory, with a process of making driven by profound engagement with chosen materials and risk-taking.

Bu resumed her art practice while living in Germany after a 10-year career as a creative writer in Beijing, China. Her first formal art training was in Chinese charcoal powder portrait drawing during her teenage years.

She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including Emerging Artist of The Year from Adelaide Critic Circle (2024), Independent Art Project Grant from Creative Australia (2024), Arts SA grant (2022,2024), James Martin Award for high achieving graduate(2021)and Graduate Fellowship (2023)from the Adelaide Central School of Art. She is the recipient of inaugural Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Museum Expand Lab, Nexues Arts residency, GuildHouse Catapult Mentorship under acclaimed artist Lindy Lee. Bu won a Hospital Research Foundation Group Art Prize (2024) and was a finalist of The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (2023),The Advertiser Contemporary Art Prize(2022,2023), Don Dunstan Foundation Art Prize(2022) and The City of Adelaide Incubator Art Prize(2022).

Bu’s works have been exhibited and performed at the OzAsia Festival (SA), Adelaide Film Festival (SA), Adelaide Festival Centre (SA), Vitalstatistix (SA), Performance Space (NSW), Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf (NSW), China Culture Centre Sydney (2023), Art Expo New York (US), Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden), Meadows Woods Gallery (US), Nexus Arts (SA), The Mill Adelaide (SA), The Little Machine and Felt Space (SA).

华裔澳洲艺术家卜晶玮（Jingwei Bu）曾在四个国家和包括中文、德文、英文三种语言环境中生活,现定居澳大利亚阿德莱德专职从事艺术创作。她通过潜意识绘画、行为艺术和影像装置的实验作品来探索时间作为合作者，作为作品主题以及作为媒介本身的哲学思辨创作。受到禅宗佛学和道家思想的影响，她的作品具有响应性、实验性和参与性。她的创作过程源于对所选材料的深度融汇以及全然开放地拥抱冒险和未知，使每件作品都能够自然地展开。

卜晶玮在德国重新开始艺术创作，此前她在中国北京从事了六年的创意写作。在开始实验性艺术的探索之前，她最初的艺术形式缘起于青少年时期接受的中国传统炭精粉肖像画训练。

她曾获得多个艺术奖项和项目发展基金，包括澳大利亚政府的独立艺术项目基金（2024）、南澳洲政府的独立艺术家项目基金（2022/2024），阿德莱德中央艺术学校的毕业生奖学金（2023）和詹姆斯·马丁奖最佳毕业生奖（2021）。此外，她还获得了医学研究基金会艺术奖（2024），入围沃特.豪斯自然科学艺术奖(2023), 广告报现代艺术奖 (2022), 唐.丹斯坦基金会奖(2022), 阿德莱德市艺术人才孵化器大奖(2022)。卜晶玮被选拔参加了首届阿德莱德电影节的拓展实验室项目（2022）和 Nexus Arts Centre 的驻地项目（2022），她的“倒茶直到蒸发” 的行为艺术表演及空间装置项目就是在此期间发展起来的。在GuildHouse 艺术组织的支持下，她自2023年开始在澳洲著名当代艺术家 Lindy Lee 的指导下进行拓展创作。她的独创的潜意识绘画项目”人生地图，Life Maps” 自2016年开始在多个展览空间展示，并在2019年被邀请成为国际精神健康周的艺术项目。

卜晶玮的作品曾在众多展览馆和艺术节呈现，包括南澳OzAsia 艺术节、Vitalstatistix 实验表演艺术节，阿德莱德电影节、阿德莱德艺术节中心、Performance Space（新州）、Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf（新州）、纽约 ArtExpo 博览会（美国）、 Supermarket 艺术博览会（瑞士）、Meadows Woods Gallery（美国）、南澳州的 Nexus Arts、The Mill Adelaide、The Little Machine Gallery and Felt Space。