Closer Together reflects on the twenty-five-year cross-cultural relationship between Hong Kong Art School and RMIT’s School of Art, whose cooperation and mutual dedication to fine art have cultivated an international community and inspired new ways of thinking and making.
The Chinese text, Tao Te Ching, suggests that the world comprises what we know and what we don’t know, which are ultimately the same. Closer Together proposes that togetherness, creative dialogue, and artmaking can help us understand this as fifteen artists celebrate connectivity and kinship and uncover new knowledge through exchange.

Movana Chen, Dreconstructing, 2009, knitted shredded magazines, 550 × 400cm. Photograph: Gyeonggi MoMA, Korea. Courtesy the artist, Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
RMIT Gallery
20 June to 12 August 2023
Melbourne