NC Qin

NC Qin is an Australian-born emerging sculptor who works mostly with glass. Her works reflect on her ancestral Chinese culture from the distance of this further shore. Compass Broken and three Moongates explore this sense of dislocation. Compass Broken refers to the ancient Daoist compass which shows the symbols of each of the mythical guardian beasts that rule the cardinal directions – the Tortoise of the North, the Tiger of the East, the Phoenix of the South and the Dragon of the West. But this compass is cracked and no longer functional, representing ‘third culture kids’ who try to reach out to the culture of their ancestors but find only a superficial sense of connection.