June 25, 2005

The harsh suppression of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese authorities is the subject of an exhibition at the Royal Queensland Art Society.

Uncompromising Courage, heralded as the exhibition US and Korean venues have been pressured not to show, will run for a week from tomorrow before moving to the Project Gallery at Griffith University's Queensland College of Art at South Bank from July 11-15.

The exhibition portrays the manifestation of good and evil amid the tragedy of persecution, the works created by a group of accomplished artists from around the world, including Kunlung Zhang, a professor of art who endured three months of physical and psychological torture in a labor camp in 2001.

The depictions are sensitively handled, underlining the uncompromising courage of people and the strength of the human spirit.