OUT OF PLACE: ONE ARTIST'S STORY OF ABORIGINAL LIFE

After spending half a lifetime with the indigenous people of Australia, a former art teacher from Anhui is keen to share his journey with society

It's nothing new that an artist might be inspired by indigenous art from other lands considering Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), which was said to be influenced by African sculptures. However, it is rare for an artist to spend half a lifetime living with aborigines in the wilds of a foreign land just to learn the essence of their traditional art and use it as the seedbed for their own work.

And Zhou Xiaoping, 60, a former art teacher from Hefei, Anhui province, did just that.