THE 3rd LIH PAO INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE BIENNIAL AWARDS

THE 3^rd LIH PAO INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE BIENNIAL AWARDS

Aim to create an environment with no barriers between life and art. Through this international opportunity, we hope to provide a platform on which young emerging talent may thrive with their creative ideas, and which may encourage international cultural exchange.

Competition Theme

Virtue and order upon the Universe

Brings harmony to Mother Earth

With the development of a script comes civilization

Culture evolves and transforms

Nowadays a script is not merely a way to communicate knowledge but also a form to present artistic culture and aesthetic design. To celebrate the scripts\' evolvement in civilisation, the topic of the 2015 Biennial Awards is to explore the connection and the transformation between scripts and cultural change in our generation.

Entry Criteria

The competition is open to both Taiwanese (R.O.C.) local and international artists.

1. The submitted work must be the artist\'s own creation. A maximum of two submissions are allowed per individual.

2. If the submitted work is found to infringe upon intellectual property right and is found guilty by the court, the prize winner shall return the prize money received. The organiser shall not be held accountable for such infringement. If the submitted work is found to be in violation of any of the following conditions, the participant will be

disqualified and disallowed from competition for the following four years.

a. The submitted work must be an original creation, not plagiarised, copied, or otherwise submitted under false pretences.

b. We do not accept work that has been entered into other competitions,

has previously won an award in any international art exhibitions or competitions, or has been entered into an international exhibition of a competitive nature (except those held by an educational institution).

Registration

1. Registration shall be made online via www.lihpao-sculpture.com Please follow the registration guidelines and provide the basic information, upload the submitted work and

accept the agreement. 6 photographs of the submitted work shall be uploaded, including the front, back, left and right profiles, and a top view photograph and a 3D photograph. An additional 2-4 photographs of the participant\'s other works in the recent two years shall also be uploaded.

2. Every artist needs to submit a 3-minute video introducing his/her work in the format of HD1280x720 and to upload this on YouTube. The content of the submitted video is not restricted. After the upload, please provide this YouTube web link in the specified column when making the online registration. Please note, without the You-Tube web link, the registration is not complete and thus is not eligible for entering the competition.

Registration Rules

1. Only photographs of the actual work model shall be uploaded. Sketches, 3D computer simulation or other photographs not meeting the criteria will not be accepted. The organiser reserves the right to accept a registration or refuse it.

2.  The concept of the submitted work shall be written in 100 to 300 words, genre not restricted. Every photograph file of the work shall be under 1MB in size and in JPEG format, with a resolution 300dpi. The file name of each photograph shall clearly state the artwork title and viewing angle, e.g. Newborn-Front View, Newborn-Back View, Newborn-Top View.

3. All files shall be uploaded together at once. Incomplete documents or incorrect formats

will not be uploaded successfully.

4. Once the registration is complete, a registration number will be sent by the system to confirm receipt of the files. If the registration number is not received, please double check if any information, document or photograph required for registration is missing, or contact the organiser immediately.

Competition Timetable

1.Registration: 1 September~17:00, 31 December 2015

2. Announcement of Shortlisted Candidates: March 2016. Announcement will be made on Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation, British Council in Taiwan and the Biennial Awards websites.

3. Artwork Submission Period: 1 April~31 July 2016. Works not received by the deadline will not be eligible for the consideration.

4. Announcement of Final Winners: September 2016. Announcement will be made on Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation, British Council in Taiwan, and the Biennial Awards websites.

5. Award Ceremony: October 2016. Date and location are to be announced.

※Please note that the above timetable is subject to change, and any changes made will be

announced on www.lihpao-sculpture.com.

Jury Deliberation

1. Materials: Primarily metal, clay, wood, stone, FRP, and other durable materials should be

used. Dangerous materials are prohibited.

a. There are two panel reviews. In the first review, 20 artworks will be shortlisted to enter the final review.

b. Combined dimensions of the shortlisted/submitted works must be in between 180cm and 240cm. The size restriction does not apply to the size of the base of the work. Work of which the combined dimensions do not meet the specified range shall be disqualified from the competition.

2.Judging Criteria:

a.Theme interpretation 30% b.Techniques 30% c.Overall presentation 40%

Awards and Prizes

1.  Gold Award : One winner ; prize money of NT$1,000,000 and atrophy and an award certificate.

2. Silver Award : One winner ; prize money of NT$700,000 and a

trophy and an award certificate.

3. Bronze Award : One winner ; prize money of NT$500,000 and a trophy and an award certificate.

4. Shortlisted Award : 17 winners ; prize money of NT$150,000 and anaward certificate.

5. Most Popular Exhibit Award : One winner ; prize money of

NT$30,000.

※During the stage of first review, all videos submitted by artists will be put online for the public to vote for their favourite video, and the winner will be announced on www.lihpaosculpture.

com.

※To encourage creation, above awards and prizes are subject to the quality of shortlisted artworks. The organiser reserves the right to add awards or not to award any winners within a given category if no entry is found to be of suitable merit.

※The regulations stipulate that Taiwanese award recipients winning prizes in excess of NT$20,000 shall be subject to a 10% withholding income tax, to be automatically deducted by the organiser, as well as a 2% supplementary health insurance premium. Non-Taiwanese (R.O.C.) award recipients winning prizes in excess of NT$10,000 shall be subject to automatic deduction of a 20% withholding income tax.

Wiring the Prize Money

1. Both international and local Taiwan prize winners are responsible to cover the handling fee that the bank charges for wiring the prize money.

2. Prize money for international prize winners shall only be wired in the currency of the Euro, the US Dollar or the RMB.

Subsidy for Shipping of Artworks

1.  Other than Gold, Silver and Bronze Award winners, Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation provides each 17 Shortlisted Award winners a subsidy of NT$10,000 to cover the shipping cost of the artwork in addition to their prize money.

2. The shipping subsidy is wired together with the prize money.

Timetable of Exhibitions

1. Exhibition Tours of Awarded Works are as follows: Taichung Tour: August~September 2016

Taipei Tour: October~November 2016 Kaohsiung Tour: December 2016

2. Exhibition locations and dates will be announced on

www.lihpao-sculpture.com

Artwork Property Rights

1. Awarded works of the 3rd Lih Pao International Sculpture Biennial Awards shall not be returned to the winners and will remain permanently in the collection of the organiser; the organiser will not offer any collection fee. The organiser reserves the right to collect the works permanently and use the artworks without a fee.

2.  The organiser reserves the right to reproduce or utilise collected works for relevant purposes, such as photography, exhibition, editing, publication, research, promotion, public display, as well as in various formats, such as video, digital and web content, print, and promotional material. Such use is not restricted in terms of frequency or number of use.

Contact Information

For enquiries, please contact

Taiwanese (R.O.C.) local artists: art@mail.lihpao.com.tw International artists: 2015sculpture@britishcouncil.org.tw

Final interpretation of the rules and regulations stipulated in these guidelines will be made in accordance with notifications from the organiser. The organiser retains the right to make changes to these guidelines at any time, and shall duly announce any amendments on www.lihpao-sculpture.com

About Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation

Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation (The Foundation) was founded in 2003 and has been established by Lih Pao Group. It is dedicated to the promotion of activities in architecture, education, arts, community building and charity with the objectives to promote art exhibitions, to encourage development of local cultures and to introduce them to the world. Through exchange of arts and partnership on arts projects, the Foundation made a contribution to the prospect of Taiwan\'s culture and arts.

The Lih Pao International Sculpture Biennial Awards is a global event organised every two years; it is Taiwan\'s first large-scale sculpture competition calling for entries to all artists worldwide. This year marks the 3rd Biennial Awards since the First Biennial Awards in 2011. The numbers of entries collected, the amount of incentives offered and the number of exhibition tours organised have all been expanded this time. The Foundation has also committed to more sophisticated competition rules and increased the profile of the Awards to encourage more artworks from both seasoned and emerging artists. Moreover, the Awards is a platform for young emerging artists to showcase their

talents and an opportunity for international exchanges, and also to help Taiwan develop new values for local arts and culture.

Fulfilling corporate social responsibility, Lih Pao Group continues to encourage the incorporation of aesthetics into everyday life and to promote creativity in sculpture making.

The Awards this year will be a focal point of the best sculptures in the world. It is hoped that

the exhibitions will bring arts closer to people and make arts part of everyday life. For more

information about the Foundation, please visit

www.lihpao.com.tw/foundation/foundation.htm

Recent Arts and Culture Events by Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation Arts and cultural promotions with local governments

The Foundation worked with various local governments to promote and deliver culture and arts events, including Panchiao Culture Festival, San-hsia Indigo Dyeing Festival, Keelung Mid-Summer Ghost Festival, Yingge Ceramics Festival, The Double Tenth Day Enbankments Culture Festival, Taipei Lantern Festival, Luzhou Culture Festival, Xinzhuang Thanksgiving Concert, Taichung International Saxophone Competition.

Architectural Aesthetics

The Foundation organised the Lih Pao Architectural Creative Forum from 2009 to 2015. In collaboration with various partners such as the Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government and Xue Xue Institute, thirty-three experts and academics in the fields of architecture, design, arts and creative industry have been invited to speak in the forums in the past seven years and attracted more than 5,000 participants.

Culture and Arts Education

The Foundation has worked with Education Department, New TaipeiCity Government from 2009 to 2015 to promote arts education andthe "Happy Family" concept. Children were encouraged to send intheir drawings on the theme of "Beautiful Taiwan, Happy Family." More than 3,900 primary school students joined this activity with 455 children winning an award. These outstanding artworks were collatedinto a collection by the Foundation, and

all of the primary schools and libraries were sent a copy of it.

In 2015, the Foundation sponsored The Art and Humanities Festival organised by the National Taiwan Normal University. Sponsorship was also given to The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors for organising the 23rd Exhibition on "Real vs. Virtual".

In 2013, the Foundation sponsored the Formosa Sculpture Biennial Exhibition in Kaohsiung and the International Miniature Sculpture Exhibition and the Sculpture Exhibition organised respectively by National Taiwan University of the Arts.

Other Charity Projects and Programmes

• New Inhabitants Torch Program of New Taipei City Government

• Liokou Wushe Street Scene Rehabilitation and experiential learning for the film "Seediq Bale"

• Art Charity Project of the National Theater & Concert Hall

• Library Renovation Project of Hsiushui Junior High School in Changhua County

• Volunteers for Malaysia Project from the National Tsing Hua University

•  Worked with Eden Social Welfare Foundation, Child Welfare League Foundation, the Autism Services Association, Taiwan Muscular Dystrophy Association and other charitable organisations for the benefits of the disadvantaged

About British Council

The British Council is the United Kingdom\'s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Founded in London in 1934, we currently operate in over 100 countries and territories worldwide. The British Council Taiwan office was founded in Taipei since 1996. The goal of our work is to promote the understanding and collaboration between UK and Taiwan on arts and creative economy.

For our recent art works in Taiwan, we have been facilitating many collaborations between mainstream local art partners and British arts organisations and artists, such as The Royal Ballet, Shakespeare\'s Globe, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, selected performing groups from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and so on, introducing the best of British visual arts, architecture, design, performing arts, film, literature and creative skill development to Taiwan. In 2015, unprecedentedly we invited 9 British fashion talents to showcase their collections, hoping to inject creative and diverse concepts into the local fashion industry and enhance UK-Taiwan collaborations by creating more new

audiences and mutual understanding.

For more information about the British Council, please visit www.britishcouncil.org.tw/en/programmes/arts

Selection Committee

Peter Murray

In 1977, whilst Principal Lecturer in Art Education at Bretton Hall College, Peter Murray founded Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Set within 500 acres of 18th century parkland, YSP is an international centre for modern and contemporary sculpture, enjoyed by 400K visitors each year.

Since then he has travelled extensively throughout the world advising on sculpture projects, lecturing and contributing to conferences and organising exhibitions. He has worked with hundreds of artists and organised major exhibitions including Antony Gormley, David Nash, Henry Moore, along with instigating residencies and projects for younger artists helping to establish YSP as a major international arts organisation. He

has written for journals and publications and has contributed to television and radio programmes. He has also been a judge for various awards including the Jerwood Sculpture Prize.

In 1988 Peter was awarded the National Arts Collection Fund Award and in 1989 made Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Lincolnshire and North Humberside and the University of Huddersfield. He has been awarded an OBE and CBE for services to the arts.

Chris Wainwright

Chris Wainwright is an artist and curator who\'s practice is located in environmental photography, performance and installation. His recent exhibitions include: "Troubled Waters", Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013: "A Catalogue of Error\'s", The Diawa Foundation, London, 2013: "Futureland Now", The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 2012-13: "Between Time and Space", Heijo Palace, Nara, Japan. He has a major forthcoming solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan in 2015.

He recently co-curated a major international touring exhibition for Cape Farewell called "U-n-f-o-l-d" that profiles the work of 23 artists addressing aspects of climate change. The exhibition has been shown in Vienna, London, Newcastle, Newlyn, Liverpool,

Chicago, New York and Beijing, 2009-2013. Presently he is involved in a three year project with Future Lab Tohoku, to establish an art based contribution to the rebuilding and cultural enhancement of the Tohoku Region of Japan, devastated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake.

He is also a Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts London and Head of Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art.

Barbara Allen

Barbara Allen is the CEO of Hospitality & Leisure Asia. HLA provides architectural and interior design services to the hospitality industry, with offices in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur

and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Barbara also sits as a Director of Harvest Moon Sdn Bhd which is an art consultancy company created as an adjunct to HLA for Hotel Art programming. As HLA works on prestigious projects including Palaces, Hotels, Resorts

and Cultural Centres, Barbara is directly involved in the selection, commissioning, and placement of investment Art for her clients.

Barbara has been a member of the American Society of Interior Designers since 1981, the National Historic Preservation Society since 1983, a member of the United States Green Building Council, a member of CODA, and was a founding member of the Hong Kong Society of Designers.

She studied History of Art, Architecture, Interior Design and Furniture Design at San Diego

State University, and later attended Inchbald School of Design in London to study 18^thcentury paint techniques. Barbara is truly multi-cultural; half Japanese and half American, with grandparents from England.

Miguel Ausili

Miguel Ausili was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina and lived in Italy for more than 30 years. His artistic training began at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in his city, with the sculptor Aurelio Macchi and continued at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. He arrived in Carrara with a scholarship to learn the technique of marble processing. He taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Turin, Venice and Palermo. He

is currently professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, his teaching is directed to the recycling of materials in sculpture and the relationship between art and nature. In recent years he has been organising events of environmental sculpture in natural environments with his students.

As an artist he often exhibited in group exhibitions including: Biennale di Scultura di Arese, Scultura di immagine. Certosa di Calci in Pisa; Premio Ternate in Monza; Idiomi della scultura contemporanea in Sommacampagna; Ausonia at Centro di Sarro, Rome; Memorial di Santa Giulia in Modena; Rien ne va plus, Castello di Lagopesole in Potenza; Premio Sulmona; Tre strade nella Scultura and many others. His works are in museums and public spaces in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Romania and Japan.

István Erőss

Artist István Erőss works at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, as associate professor and head of the Department of Visual Arts. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1995 as a printmaker, but he also attended other institutions, such as the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) and the College of Fine Arts in Marseille. He defended his DLA thesis in 2009. He has taken numerous professional trips to remote countries: he has been to Africa four times and to Asia twenty-one times as a guest artist, exhibitor, lecturer or curator of different artists\' camps

and symposia. He is exhibitor and organiser of the series of international exchange

exhibitions entitled SZEGMENS (SEGMENT), consisting of twenty six events held in Hungary and several Asian countries up to now. He works in different genres ranging from printmaking through installation to performance. In the last ten years he has mainly focused on creating nature art works.

Terry Huang

Dr. Terry Huang, managing partner and vice-president of Motif Art Group, also head of Group\'s Asian-Pacific region, overseeing the issue and management of art-related financial products. He initiated several art-related financial products such as Art Fund, Fixed Asset Management, Art as Collateral, and Art as a vehicle for Asset Allocation into Asian-Pacific region. He also participates in the strategic planning, designing, and

developing of several cultural and creative parks in the major cities in China. Dr. Huang grew up in Taiwan, awarded a Ph.D. in History of Modern Art from Harvard University and an MS in Arts Administration and an MA in Art History from Boston

University. He previously served as the faculty at New York University and held a forum of Semiotics of Visual Languages at Oxford University. He is a tenured professor at Yale University and had held fellowships from Getty Fellowship / Whitney Humanities Center and Mellon Fellowship. Between 2002 and 2003, he served as a panel advisor overseeing and managing the Acquisition Funds for the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), while associated with JPMorgan Chase Funds for the Museum\'s expansion project.

Meanwhile, he also served as panel advisor at National Endowment for the

Arts (NEA)\'s board, brought considerable expertise and former operating experience into the reviews over cultural-related budget and expenses.

Izumi Hatano

Professor Izumi Hatano is Advisor to the President and Director of the University Library and Arts Museum of Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts now. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (sculpture department) in 1982, and completed Master\'s

Program (Graduate School of Art) in 1984. He instructed as a lecturer in Tokyo University of the Arts until 1996 and teaches in Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts from 1997 and reaches it at the present. In 1999, he stayed and taught in National Taiwan University of Arts as an invitation foreigner honorary member artist and associate professor.

As an sculptor, his recent main exhibitions include "Art Revolution Taipei" at Taipei Show Hall; "Sanyi International Woodcarving Art Festival" at Sanyi Woodcarving Museum, Miaoli County in Taiwan; "Solo Show-HATANO IZUMI- Wood and Urushi" at Asago Art Village Museum, Hyogo, Japan; "International Sculpture Festa 2011 in Seoul" at The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center; "Sculpture Field - Substance and Medium" at Kao Yuan University Art Center, Taiwan; and so on.

There are many international exchange exhibitions with the Taiwanese universities and the society, and Izumi Hatano plans them as Director of the Contemporary Sculpture Society

in Okinawa (He is in post of chief director now) and contributes to cultural exchange after 1997.

J.J. Shih

J.J. Shih is the Executive Director of Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei). Born in 1954 in Nanto Taiwan, J.J. Shih holds a Bachelor\'s degree (Fine Arts), National Taiwan University and a Master\'s degree, Graduate School of Art History, Temple University (USA). Prior to taking up the directorship of Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, J.J. Shih was the Chief Curator, Exhibitions and Deputy Researcher, Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Tsai-Lang Huang

Tsai-Lang Huang is the former Director of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and promoted a number of important biennial exhibitions, including the Asian Arts Biennial Exhibition, Taiwan Biennial Fine Arts Exhibition, Architecture Biennial Exhibition in Venice – Taiwan Pavilion, International Biennial Print Exhibition. From 2013 onwards, solo exhibitions for international contemporary artists, including Tony Cragg and Agam, demonstrated the achievements of international exchanges by the Museum under his leadership. The Museum is now working on a few important projects, including promoting a catalogue system of collections in the past 25 years, planning regular exhibits of the best collections of the Museum, organizing a series of biographical exhibits of local artists to present the works and art history development after the World War II, and setting up an art

bank to promote rental of collections to be displayed in public space.

Pei-Ni Hsieh

Born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1966, Pei-Ni Beatrice Hsieh is the former director of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. She is also appointed as the committee member for various councils for art and cultural affairs on both municipal and national levels as well as the trustee for art endowments and foundations in Taiwan. Hsieh serves as the board member at the Chinese Association of Museums and AICA-Taiwan. She sits in the advisory boards for art museums to be opened in Tainan, Taichung, New Taipei City and Chiayi.

As an art curator, Hsieh was the chief curator of the National Taiwan Museum of Arts, and was also the Chief of its Office for International & Public Relations. In her curatorial practices, Hsieh has been credited with dozens of local and international exhibitions held in leading art institutes in different continents. She was best known for presenting the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial.

As an art critic and historian credited with award-winning publications, Hsieh has constantly published essays and articles in periodicals, magazines and catalogues in both Chinese and foreign languages over the last two decades. Hsieh has been invited by overseas universities and institutes such like UNESCO-ICOM\'s sub committees, AICA, AAM, PAA and by governments of USA, France, Australia and so on, she was also awarded with

the Decoration of Masarek by the Czech Republic and decorated by Italian government in 2014.

Kai-Huang Chen

Kai-Huang Chen, a practitioner and innovator in interdisciplinary aesthetics, specializes in concepts for art and has a long focus on the "variation of impossibility in cultural ontology," "Trans-subjectivity paralogic," and "Intervention Arts." His research interests include aesthetics and the society, contemporary political science and identification with historic interlocks.

Toward the end of 1980s, he started art projects corresponding to the theme of art work using multiple media, incorporating behavior, image and new media, interdisciplinary multi-media installation, all of which is Measurement of Inter-Cultures or Culture Measuring. He has multiple roles – an interdisciplinary artist, an innovator & curator, an art social movement practitioner, a culture advisor and an advocate for micro-organisation reforms. In addition to these planned work, he is currently a professor in postgraduate interdisciplinary research and the Dean of College of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He is also the Chairman of Sanzhi Culture Foundation. His main creative works, exhibits and teaching posts are in Taipei.

Po-Lin Yang

Yang is currently the owner of 33 Elephant International Art Inc., chairman of Taiwan Association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors, and organiser of Taiwan, Japan and Korea Sculpture Exchange Exhibition.

As a prolific creator, Yang\'s works include "Conception, Heaven and Earth, Flying Seed" series, "Out of the Earth," "Sun Rises from the East," "The Dance of Flame," "Spring is Coming," "Island," and "Macro Bar Code." In 2009 he just won Taipei Air Control Center, Civil Aeronautics Administration, MOTC, with "Restricted Flight" in 1st place. In addition, constant presentations have also been seen in gallery, public arts, landscape design, architecture panning, and other fine arts, and a frequent participant in various international exhibitions.

Po-Chun Liu

Liu holds a Master\'s degree in Sculpture at École Nationale Supérieux des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. He is a professor in Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Arts and also the Chief Executive of Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Foundation. He was once appointed as the Director at the National Taiwan University of Arts for two school terms and the Director of Art Museum at National Taiwan University of Arts.

His awards include:

• 2008 Zhong-shan Arts Awards

• First Prize in 2010 Taipei Hakka Affairs Commission Theme Park Public Arts

• 2010 "Steel Forest" presentation at Water-side Park in Korea

• 2012 Wu San Lien Arts Awards

• 2015 Art work "Dragon" was collected by the Museum of Anthropology in Paris, France

• 2015 Art works "Transformed City," "Kiss," and "Song for Life" were collected by A. Rome Lifestyle Hotel and displayed at the hotel square

Jiang-Guo Sui

Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, in 1956, Sui received his Bachelor\'s degree in Fine Arts from Shandong University of Arts. In 1989, he earned a Master\'s degree in Sculpture from China Central Academy of Fine Arts where he is currently Professor in the Department of Sculpture.

Academic Partners

Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Arts

The Department of Sculpture is the only department which focuses on the art of sculpture in Taiwan. Since the 1960s, the department has had more than 900 graduates and become a main character of sculpture today in Taiwan.

We impart to students the knowledge of sculptural culture and professional art through academic research and study, making use of the qualities of Eastern art in the context of western sculpture form. Our curriculum structure allows students to create their own field

of study through course selection rather than arbitrary division into study groups. Students then proceed to refined modern sculpture workshops in "Sculpture", "Metalworking", "Woodcarving", "Stone Carving", and "Mixed Media."

We invite teachers from around the world to make students realise the principle of art creation in different eras, regions and historical backgrounds through the international exchange.

School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts

The School of Fine Arts has produced many young artists whose creative talents were unleashed under the guidance of a diverse cohort of artists, teachers and researchers. It continues to be instrumental in developing the potential of Taiwan\'s contemporary art, while situating Taiwanese art in the international context. The School offers courses that include both practical and studio-based work, and theoretical research. The curriculum emphasises interdepartmental interaction and interdisciplinary integration.

University of the Arts London

University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe\'s largest specialist art and design university. Its unique creative community is made up of six distinctive and distinguished Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. Renowned names in the cultural and creative sectors produced by the University include 12 Turner

prize winners and over half of all nominees, 10 out of 17 fashion designers named British Designer of the Year, more than half of the designers showcased in London Fashion Week, 12 out of 30 winners of the Jerwood Photography Award and seven winners of the Prince Philip Designers Prize.

Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts was founded on the principle of the relentless pursuit of beauty: both the distinctive beauty created by Okinawan culture, and the universal beauty of humankind. In accordance with that principle, we are a comprehensive arts school consisting of a Faculty of Arts and Crafts, a Faculty of Music, graduate schools, a Research Institute, and a University Library and Arts Museum. Taking advantage of our geographical position at the crossroads of East Asia and the Pacific region, we have entered into agreements for artistic and scholarly exchange with ten universities in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, and we actively encourage students to study abroad.

This year marks our 29th anniversary. Thus far, approximately 3,300 graduates have completed their studies and are now actively engaged in creative endeavours, some working as musicians and performers, some as artists, as well many more in other artistic fields.