Rudyard Kipling famously waxed lyrical that East is East and west is West, and never the twain shall meet. I don’t know if he ever met Mark Twain, but the twain twixt eastern and western art has certainly been met right here in the heart of the Sydney CBD.

Hong Kong House plays home to RED-VOLUTION the first Red Dose arts exhibition – a fusion of film, photography, calligraphy, painting, ceramics and mixed media from Asian-Australian artists, Hong Kong and Chinese born artists and Australian artists influenced by Chinese art.

It’s a small but impressive exhibition featuring thirteen diverse artists, many giving a contemporary edge to traditional, classical practise.

Andrew Lo’s classic fan and script collages are simultaneously traditional but of today, as are the canvas works of Brett Bailey.

Keith Lane’s painted figures, Sorrow and Standing Dragon, are inspired by Chinese ceramics but transmuted by an overlay of techniques, forms and references to create cross cultural resonators, while Tianli Zu’s rice paper and wood cut combines calligraphy and light projection  comingling the abstract and the concrete.

There’s a playfulness in Douglas Cham’s Banana-kids ceramics, Laurens Tan’s  language lounge  and Miggie Wong’s performance sculpture, Sleepover party Project Invitation 01.

A special movie night – Tuesday November 12 from 6.30pm showcases three short works from  emerging film makers Ivana Lai, Lilian Fu  and Pako Leung.

Leung’s live action piece Still on the Bridge, is the longest at 30 minutes, and depicts a street hawker of sweets as he tries to ply his trade in a rapidly changing and fading Hong Kong neighbourhood.

Hong Kong animator now based in London, also depicts a fast changing city, while memories of the past also inform Lai’s lyrical In Case.

Red Dose RED-VOLUTION exhibits Monday – Saturday  10am -4pm October 24 – November 14 at Hong Kong House,  corner Druitt and York Streets, Sydney.