Artist commemorates Tiananmen massacre

31 May 2009, 4:55 pm   -   Source: SBS
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A former struggling Chinese student artist remembers Tiananmen Square 20 years ago.

Twenty years ago this week, Prime Minister Bob Hawke was moved to tears by events unfolding in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
 
He declared that over 15,000 Chinese students living in Australia could stay here.
 
Among them was struggling artist, Shen Jiawei.
 
Mr Shen is now a leading portrait painter who counts Princess Mary of Denmark and former Prime Minister John Howard among his subjects.
 
But 20 years on, the memories of what happened in Tiananmen Square still weigh heavily on his mind.
 
For the first time in his career, Mr Shen has decided to tackle the subject of the Tiananmen crackdown by painting a communist history portrait.
 
And although, he now holds regular exhibitions in China, he says he won't attempt to display his work on the still-taboo subject there.
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