4A Papers

Launched in November 2016, 4A Papers is an online publishing platform committed to covering a range of stories, ideas, responses and styles on the art and culture of our region. Posted every six months, 4A Papers revolves around five degrees of perspectives: NOW, THEN, MAKE, TALK, SEE. From critical essays, historical analyses and experimental articulations of what it means to engage with the world today, to conversations, reviews and travelogues that seek to create a dialogue, 4A Papers is responsive to what is happening around us.

4A Papers Issue #10 will be released on 5 October 2021.

Issue 9, November 2020

4A Papers Issue 9, November 2020 Letter from the Editor It’s all about...

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Issue 8, May 2020

4A Papers Issue 8, May 2020 – Wansolwara: One Salt Water In...

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Issue 7, November 2019

Letter from the Editor Save your breath It’s smoky out. Walking...

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Issue 6, May 2019

Letter from the Editor Temporary loss of information The wheel of...

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Issue 5, November 2018

Letter from the Editor Back to zero To chase one’s tail...

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Issue 4, May 2018

Letter from the Editor Deliver on your promises It’s good advice,...

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Issue 3, November 2017

Letter from the Editor Something happened Something is always happening. Somewhere,...

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Issue 2, May 2017

Letter from the Editor It’s always good to have options If...

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Issue 1, November 2016

Letter from the Editor I would prefer not to Presumably, dear...

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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Visual Art & Craft Strategy and the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the City of Sydney. CHAMPIONS; The Neilson Foundation. CHAMPIONS: The Neilson Foundation. PRINCIPAL PATRONS: Sue Acret & James Roth; Oranges and Sardines Foundation; The Sky Foundation; Ah Xian & Ma Li. PATRONS: Geoff Ainsworth AM; Edmund Capon OBE; AM; Daniel & Lyndell Droga; Richard Funston & Kiong Lee; Johnson Pilton Walker; The Keir Foundation; John Lam-Po-Tang Vicki Olsson Adrian Williams BENEFACTORS: Brooke & Stephen Aitken; AMP Foundation; Andrew Cameron; Julia Champtaloup and Andrew Rothery; CHROFI; Konfir Kabo; Lisa Paulsen; Penelope Seidler; AM; Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO; Dr Dick Quan; Dr John Yu AC. FRIENDS: Michael Alvisse; Professor Ien Ang; Michael Boston; Simon Chan Art Atrium; Dakota Managment; Maree and Andrew Di Pasquale; Barbara Flynn; Andrea Fraser; Michael Hobbs; Mabel Lee; Andrea Larkin; Susan Nathan; James Roland; Dr Gene R. Sherman AM; Brian Sherman AM; James Roland; Aaron Seeto and Jane Somerville; Becky Sparks; Maisy Stapleton; Ursula Sullivan + Joanna Strumpf; Abdullah M I Syed; Victoria Taylor; Rosie Wagstaff; Anna Waldmann; Sean Woon; Fung Yeh Lee and Ngar-yi Ho; John Young and Kate Mizrahi. PARTNERS: CAOA - Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia; AEGEUS; Art Monthly Australasia; D.A.M; Vault Magazine. 4A would like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which our Sydney gallery is situated. 4A pays respects to Elders past and present.