Ray Hughes Gallery has been focusing on contemporary art and supported excellent artists, also playing the bridge connecting the artists of Australia and China. Guan Shanyue Art Museum keeps great relationship with Australian art circle. And the exhibition of Three Australian Painters we co-hold with Ray Hughes Gallery is the latest fruit of art exchange between these two nations. The exhibition opens from 15th,Aug to 2th,Sept,2007 at the first floor,Guan Shanyue Art Museum,Shenzhen.The three Australian painters, Jun Chen, Ian Smith and Joe Furlonger, all found their inspiration both within Australia and Chinese art tradition. And their works blend in these two cultural traditions. Jun Chen, though born in China, his heavily impastoed paintings of human figures and scenery of Brisbane took him to the final of Sulman Prize and Archibald Prize. Joe Furlonger has learned something from Chinese art, and his paintings of the vast, featureless plains of Australian outback are characteristic, modern version of traditional Chinese painting.For Ian Smith, what he painted have much evident spiritual affinities with booming cities in China.