Jiaxin Nong x The Social Outfit

Introducing our first new print collaboration for 2019, with Melbourne-based artist Jiaxin Nong!

This print is based on Jiaxin's original oil painting, 'Smoking Mirror', an artwork about new love.

The Social Outfit worked with Jiaxin to translate this artwork into a repeating pattern for fabric, introducing new colours inspired by the artist's wider body of work.

The resulting print, 'Smoking Mirror Remix', is one of our Autumn/Winter highlights for 2019!

“My practice explores the conflict of cultural awareness, not only a conversation between Eastern and Western contemporary art concepts, methods, and techniques; but a response to the impact brought about by changes in lifestyle… Themes of migration are important in my work because as an immigrant myself, I have the opportunity to explore my thoughts and feelings about life from multiple cultural stand points and observations.”

- Jiaxin Nong


"I'm excited to collaborate with The Social Outfit because they show that art can communicate and be a positive force in many differing ways. Also ethical production is the way of the the future, and the pieces produced by The Social Outfit are beautiful… They make things happen for people from different backgrounds working as a team to strengthen equality in the community."

- Jiaxin Nong

About Jiaxin:

Jiaxin Nong, born in Guangzhou, China in 1988, studied at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and immigrated to Australia in 2009. She graduated with a diploma of Visual Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2012, and received a bachelor degree from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015. Nong is currently working and living in Melbourne.

Like many other immigrants, the conflict of cultural awareness is an important factor influencing Jiaxin’s artistic practice. This is not only a conversation between Eastern and Western contemporary art concepts, methods, and techniques; but a response to the impact brought about by changes in lifestyle.

This has led Jiaxin to use various media in her work. Uneasy using only one artistic discipline to express herself accurately, Jiaxin moves between media as it is needed. Because life is always in flux, ideas are inherently shifting and evolving with it. Suitable tools are needed to achieve the specifics of each artistic expression. These tools include painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and photography.

Just as the mediums she uses are varied, her creative themes vary as she makes her way through the ever changing conditions and stages of life.