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Neil Manton, Brian Wallace

Atsushi Shimizu, The Great Escape #1, 2001, wood and acrylic. In 3 Degrees at Helengory galerie until 25 September, ph 03 9525 2808.

Artists go to Asia

New Zealand artists Kelly Thompson and Simon Kaan will take up residencies in New Delhi and Beijing in what are the first artist residencies in Asia to be offered by Creative New Zealand, in partnership with the Asia 2000 Foundation of New Zealand. Dunedin textile artist Kelly Thompson and senior lecturer at the School of Art at Otago Polytechnic will spend three months later this year as artist-in-residence at the Sanskriti Foundation’s Sanskriti Kendra campus on the outskirts of New Delhi. While Simon Kaan, a Dunedin visual artist, will spend three months from October this year as artist-in-residence at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Congratulations! KJD

Mekong…me going

This morning brought an invitation to Indonesia for the opening of Chang Fee Ming’s wonderful visual journey, Mekong, so I might go back to hibernate again, warmed by this lovely catalogue. Visit: www.changfeeming-mekong.com. Hmm might also take with me Gill Green’s epic volume on traditional weaving from Cambodia. NM

Studies in Singapore

Ho Tzu Nyen is in Australia researching for his thesis on post-war contemporary art in Singapore, and we spent pleasant hours going through my early catalogues and papers from the time. Strange that two major and essential archives on this subject are in Canberra and Melbourne. Tzu Nyen left with me an excellent catalogue from LASALLE-SIA College for the Arts, Painting as a process – Re-evaluating painting, which features a number of British and Singaporean artists (mentioned in Asia Artnotes July #171). Visit: www.lasallesia.edu.org. NM