This Friends Night we will meet together on campus at the Australian Centre on China in the World to join curator Chin-Jie Melodie Liu to view and gain insight into the exhibition Unearthed: Chinese Funerary Ceramics from the National Gallery of Australia.

Unearthed presents a selection of Chinese funerary art from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Burial customs of early China provide a rare window into life in the ancient world. Elaborate tomb furnishings reflected evolving understandings of the living realm and the hereafter. Over the centuries, personal objects placed in tombs to accompany the dead were gradually replaced by representations of everyday objects and specialised forms. This ultimately led to the more formalised production of funerary ceramics for use in burial.

Chin-Jie Melodie Liu is an artist, curator and writer based in Kamberri/Canberra. Liu is the Events & Collections Officer at the Australian Centre on China in the World and co-curator of the Unearthed: Chinese Funerary Ceramics from the National Gallery of Australia exhibition.

While the Drill Hall is closed for roof remediation Friends events will take place at alternate venues on and off campus. If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation plan please contact friends.dhg@anu.edu.au

Image: Court lady playing polo, Tang dynasty, painted earthenware. Gift of TT Tsui, Hong Kong, through the National Gallery of Australian Foundation 1995. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia.

Contact the host of October Friends Night: Curator in Conversation - Unearthed