Ah Xian’s China China – Bust 81, 2004, glazed porcelain; Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the artist.
The myth that refugees are not contributors to society, that they are either unemployable or taking our jobs (or both at once according to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton) is dramatically exploded by a new exhibition of ​the work of refugee artists.
Many of the artists exhibited in Refugees can be found in the world’s finest art galleries, names such as Marc Chagall, Lucian Freud, Max Ernst, Anish Kapoor, Ai Wei Wei and Helmut Newton.
