Guo Jian is the ultimate satirist, bravely playing with irony and exaggeration to the extreme. His images are at once provocative working with highly charged subject matter centres around eroticism, violence and Communist culture.

Much of Guo Jian’s life and experiences have had a strong and very permanent influence over his work. Born in China Guo Jian was raised in a politically charged climate. So much so that Guo Jian served four years in the People’s Liberation Army working on propaganda posters of the time and was a participant in the Tiananmen Square protests. Much like the influence of his propaganda work, his enrolment and life as a soldier has had a lasting effect on his practice resulting in Guo Jian developing his unmistakable style.

Inspired by his own memories and life experiences he manages to assimilate theses themes into his work while perfectly balancing his political views with Kitsch and erotic subject matter. His style is unsettling, evokes absurdity and is designed to challenge.

Now living between Australia and China, Guo Jian continuing is subverting and celebrating his own culture for a foreign audience. Exhibiting extensively Guo Jian is held in many important collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.