Healing the shame felt by minorities. Jayanto Lie and the Incinerator Art Awards.

The Incinerator Art Award and exhibition was conducted. From 28 August – 01 November 2020 with the theme “Art for Social Change.” Jayanto Lie‘s ceramic entry entitled “La Familia –The Family” was a shortlisted finalist.

When you feel that nobody sees or hears you, particularly when you resettle in another country feelings of isolation can dominate. They feel like ghost. Source: Image courtesy Jayanto Lie/14 Sep 2020.

Jayanto Lie is an Indonesian of Sumatran and Chinese heritage who lives in Sydney.  He explains how his beautiful, simple, white ceramic representations of family artefacts symbolise the need to eradicate the shame and exclusion experienced by minorities.

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