PSA: The White Rabbit Gallery Teahouse will be serving a limited menu for the remainder of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 exhibition.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, for the remainder of the exhibition, the Teahouse won't be serving dumplings... (we're so sorry 💔).
We will however, remain serving a wide range of refreshments, from high-quality Chinese teas to wine, beer and soft drinks. We will also remain serving our snack plates, to complement your beverage.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 will close for the final time on Sunday 17th May at 5pm. Please note the Teahouse will be closing slightly early this day, so get in early to ensure your spot!
Open: Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm, until Sunday 17th May.
Dr Judith Neilson AM opened the White Rabbit Gallery to share her collection of contemporary Chinese art with as many people as possible—especially those who may never have visited a museum or gallery before. Her aim was to show that contemporary art can be beautiful, challenging, and exciting, while giving visitors the freedom to experience it in their own way, without being told what they should or shouldn’t like.
Since 2009, the gallery has become an important part of the community.
"It's a living collection, it's got its own personality. It's got its name, and it lives here. It's part of the community. I know that sounds crazy, but that's sort of what it is." Dr Judith Neilson AM
Have you visited the gallery before? Do you have any favourite memories or artworks? Let us know in the comments below.
📸 Photography: James Brickwood / Sydney Morning Herald
Rabble-rousers, riffraff, scoundrels, and criminals. Troublemakers, wanderers, deviants, misfits. They’ve gone by many names—but to the Chinese state, they were once known simply as 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨.
Be sure to visit this weekend... It's your last chance to see what all the fuss is about.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open today and tomorrow 10am-5pm. Entry is free.
Final day: Sunday 17 May 2026. *Please note the Gift Shop and Teahouse will close slightly early on Sunday, so if you want to do any shopping or snacking, get in early.
Photography: Hamish McIntosh @hamishmcintosh
Inspired by a decaying carousel outside his Paris studio, Huang Yongping’s installation is a haunting meditation on conquest and sovereignty. The French word Souveraines—meaning “sovereign”—denotes supreme authority, yet it only appeared in the Chinese language after the Opium War of 1840, marking China’s growing vulnerability to Western imperialism. Brimming with layered symbolism—from Tipu’s Tiger to Le Vizir, a horse gifted to Napoleon—the work draws from multiple histories. At its centre, a cast-iron map of Hong Kong hangs in fragile balance, like counterweights, forming an allegory of contested rule and shifting power.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm, until Sunday 17th May.
🧑🎨 HUANG YONGPING 黄永砅
🎨 Les Consoles de Jeu Souveraines, 2017, steel, aluminium, bronze, wood, plastic, fibreglass, paper, straw and taxidermied horse, 345 x 586 cm diameter
Photography: Hamish McIntosh
“I want to tell a story about a person who has been imprisoned in a dungeon and knows nothing about the outside world, while China has rapidly developed during these several decades,” says Ju Anqi.
Part historical fiction, part absurdist parable, his film ‘A Missing Policeman’ uses a darkly comic scenario to critique the shifting role of contemporary art in China and illustrates how China’s avant-garde transitioned from radical resistance to market-driven ambition.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm. Entry is free.
Final day: Sunday 17 May 2026.
🧑🎨 JU ANQI 雎安奇
🎨 A Missing Policeman, 2016, video (colour, sound), 50 min 2 sec
It's the final week of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨.
‘Stanley’ is an installation that uncovers the hidden histories embedded within the familiar landscape of Stanley Beach, one of Hong Kong’s most popular seaside destinations. Combining prints, neon signage, and an indoor recreation of a beach environment, the work invites viewers to look beyond the surface of leisure and sunlight.
Among the many beaches that line the city’s coastline, few are as symbolically charged as Stanley. Surrounding the beach are fragments of Hong Kong’s layered urban fabric: a public housing estate, a market selling mass-produced crafts and artworks, and a reconstructed Victorian government building repurposed as a shopping mall. Stanley presents itself as a generic, sunlit destination—a “non-place” defined by circulation and spectacle, leaving no trace.
What remains largely unseen, however, is Stanley’s past as a site of wartime trauma. During World War II, it was both a battleground and the location of a civilian internment camp where many endured captivity. ‘Stanley’ seeks to bring these buried narratives to the surface, exposing the tension between the beach’s idyllic present and its forgotten histories.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm, until Sunday 17th May. Entry is free.
🧑🎨 SAMSON YOUNG 楊嘉輝
🎨 Stanley, 2014, sand, C-type prints, 16 pieces, each 84 x 55 cm, neon sign, 120 x 400 cm, installation dimension variable
Photography: Hamish McInotsh @hamishmcintosh
To me, artists were a group of destroyers... romantic, passionate, and capable of anything...” Wu Chen
See Wu Chen's 'A Group of Artists' in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨. There's only one week left to visit the exhibition. It's final day is Sunday 17th May.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm, until Sunday 17th May. Entry is free.
🧑🎨 WU CHEN 武晨
🎨 A Group of Artists, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 450 cm (triptych)
It's the last week to view Rel Pham's artwork "Mon Visage Quand" on our website homepage! 👋
For one more week, you can experience it front and centre on the big screen—don’t miss it. After that, the work will still be live in the WRG Digital Archive, available to view anytime, 24/7.
@rel.pham is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist known for a strong use of electric, vibrant colours and a penchant for surrealism. Drawing upon old world fables and rituals for thematic inspiration, Pham explores the interconnected nature of our current physical and digital realities through screen-based video, animation and installation. Pham creates hybrid worlds, rendering traditional scenes of Cao Dai temples and Western classical art in an illuminated palette of neon PC coolant fluid and radiant LED lights. He flattens our past, present and future to demystify the invisible numbers that surround everyday life, exposing the programmed spectres haunting our data through cautionary tales of being intrinsically connected online.
Pham has presented the solo exhibitions and commissions HYPERTHREAD, The National Communication Museum (2024), TEMPLE, NGV Australia (2023), CACHE (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2023), TORRENT, The Bridge, Kingston (2022); Electric Dirge, 4A Digital, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2021) Pham has also worked as a video designer in collaboration with artists Amrita Hepi – Liable (NGV Triennial 2024), Rainbow Chan – The Bridal Lament, Mindy Meng Wang & Monica Lim, Opera For The Dead (Asiatopa 2025).
👀 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙇𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 👀
Come in and see these little rascals while there's still time!
Li Wei’s installation ‘Once Upon a Time’ depicts a chilling scene of six hyper-realistic children made from silicone and real human hair. Each figure is a representation of a world leader as a child at the age of approximately 7 years old. The meticulously detailed, life-size, ball-jointed mannequins of world leaders offer a critical view of global politics through the lens of childhood play.
The figures depict: Barack Obama (44th President of the United States), George Bush (43rd President of the United States), Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany), Vladimir Putin (President of Russia), Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria), Osama bin Laden (founder and leader of al-Qaeda).
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙨 is open Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm. Entry is free.
Final day: Sunday 17 May 2026. *Please note the Gift Shop and Teahouse will close slightly early on the final day, so if you want to do any shopping or snacking, get in early.
🧑🎨 LI WEI 黎薇
🎨 Once Upon a Time, 2019, silicone, metal, 3D printed plastic, paint, clothing, human hair, six figures, each approximately 120 x 33 x 21 cm
Videography: Moon Vision Studio @moon_vision_studio
There's something special about textiles 💕
Textiles sits at the intersection of comfort, memory, and identity—woven into our daily lives while carrying stories of culture, heritage, and self-expression. Textiles is a universal language.
How do textiles show up in your daily life or creative practice?
Hu Yinping explores this space by blurring the lines between art, social practice, and everyday life. In 2015, she invented the persona “Hu Xiaofang” after discovering her mother and other women knitting hats for minimal pay. By creating a fictional buyer who paid fair prices, Hu’s gesture evolved into a long-term social project. In ‘Potatoes, Potatoes’ and ‘Wheat, Wheat’, rural women knitted crops familiar to them, reflecting on contemporary society’s alienation from the land.
Artist: Hu Yinping 胡尹萍
Artworks: Potatoes, Potatoes, 2024, wool, cotton, hemp fibre, plastic coated steel wire, 200 pieces, each 60 x 35 x 35 cm | Wheat, Wheat, 2024, wool, cotton, hemp fibre, plastic coated steel wire, 300 pieces, each 60 x 35 x 35 cm
Photography: Hamish McIntosh @hamishmcintosh
Wang Yuyu’s ‘Patching Practice: Trifoliate Orange’ is a sculptural installation that blends together clothing, silicone, and steel to form a work that feels both intimate and richly layered. By combining found materials with objects that evoke living flesh, Wang investigates the body as a site of memory, femininity, fragility, transformation, and resistance.
Her engagement with the human body functions as a language in itself. Through fabric, silicone, and wire, she constructs a tactile and emotional landscape in which materials act as extensions of bodily presence. Circular forms and skin-like surfaces recall rhythms and bodily processes, drawing attention to the memories and emotions carried within the body’s shifting contours.
🧑🎨 WANG YUYU 王玉钰
🎨 Patching Practice: Trifoliate Orange, 2022, underwear (bras), silicone, steel wire, stainless steel, wood, acrylic paint, 200 x 60 x 40 cm
📷 Photography: Hamish McIntosh @hamishmcintosh
“We live in an ecosystem where the strong prey on the weak.” Tian Longyu is speaking about his sculpture titled A…O! which features a large elephant swallowed whole by a tiger.
📍 Open: Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm
📣 Public Tours: 11am and 3pm
🤑 Entry is free!
🧑🎨 TIAN LONGYU田龙玉
🎨 A… O!, 2014-15, dog fur (collected from pet groomers), leather, fibreglass, metal, 251 x 195 x 430 cm
📽️ Videography: Moon Vision Studio @moon_vision_studio
