Art Almanac | John Young Zerunge: The Lives of Celestials

The past is what happened, history is what is remembered. Recognising this dichotomy, John Young Zerunge reconstructs dominant historical narratives into more accurate and diverse records of the past. Following years of robust research, his artistic reimagining of historical data brings invisible stories into public consciousness. ‘The Lives of Celestials: John Young Zerunge’ at Town Hall Gallery, supports his aims to unearth, ‘empathy and cultural sensitivity’ for non-western stories by exhibiting what he has discovered about Australia’s Chinese communities from the 1840s onwards