Shen Jiawei (1948) is a former Chinese Red Guard
revolutionary and a Chinese Australian painter. He is a winner of the 2006 Sir
John Sulman Prize.
Shen Jiawei was born in Shanghai and emigrated to Australia
in 1989. He was largely self-taught and became popular with the Chinese
government for his 'revolutionary' images of workers and soldiers.
His best-known
work from that period, "Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland"
(1974) was subsequently shown in the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City
and Bilbao, in the China: 5000 Years exhibition, 1998.
Shen is also a painter of large-scale history pictures
represented in major public collections; including the National Art Gallery of
China and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution in Beijing.
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| Spain 1937 (2012) — a scene featuring a jeep-load of artists and intellectuals who took part in the Spanish Civil War |
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