Academic Invited to Create Work in China
media release

Dr Dan Wollmering, senior lecturer in the sculpture studio, Department of Fine Arts, Monash University, is one of 12 sculptors from 11 countries who has been invited to participate in the Ninth Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium in China, where a sculpture by Wollmering will be constructed and permanently installed.  Wollmering, the only sculptor invited from Australia, has been asked to fabricate his own sculpture on site with the help of symposium assistants. The proposed work entitled "Surge", will be constructed out of stone, metal and bronze, measuring approximately 3 x 5 x 1.5 metres. To promote sculpture and meet the ongoing development of Yuzi Paradise, the symposium will be held from July 1 - 31.

"The main aim of the symposium is to summon eminent sculptors of the world and have them join together to exchange discourse and create work." With "protect nature and create new culture" as it's principle during construction, Yuzi Paradise is "an international organisation of art creation and cultural exchange which focuses on modern sculpture and land art projects. It also functions as an art creation workshop, exhibition area, aesthetic education space and cultural attraction."