1. Shen Jiawei was born on 1948 and is a Chinese-Australian painter.
12 Facts About Shen Jiawei
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Shen Jiawei is a winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize.
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Shen Jiawei was in his final year of high school when the Cultural Revolution was launched in 1967.
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Shen Jiawei painted his best known work from this period, "Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland", while serving in Heilongjiang province in 1974.
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In 1982, Shen Jiawei was a member of the first class at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing since the Cultural Revolution.
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Shen Jiawei emigrated to Australia in 1989, where, he worked in Darling Harbour, Sydney as a portrait artist.
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In 1995, Shen Jiawei won the Mary MacKillop Art Award and received a medal from Pope John Paul II.
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Since the 1990s, Shen Jiawei has competed a number of pieces for the Catholic Church.
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Shen Jiawei is a painter of large-scale history pictures represented in major public collections; including the National Art Gallery of China and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution in Beijing.
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Shen Jiawei painted the first official portrait of Pope Frances.
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In 2019, Shen Jiawei painted a portrait of philanthropist, Susan Wakil, AO, wearing an outfit by her favourite designer, Yves Saint Laurent, from a photograph, commissioned by Isaac Wakil, her husband of 62 years.
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Shen Jiawei's wife, Lan Wang, is a painter, as well as sculptor.