 Since coming to Australia ten years ago, I’d pushed memories of my years in the Chinese army, and of Tiananmen, out of my mind.But seeing these images triggered memories, and once I stated to use them in my paintings, I stopped having bad dreams.’”  

Guo Jian 郭健 was born in 1962, in Duyun 都匀市 the capital of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in the autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province贵州省in Southwest China.Guizhou borders Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan and Sichuan provinces.