'Chinese Banksy' living in Australia releases confronting art to take a swipe at China

A Chinese political artist living in Australia has made a series of provocative artworks protesting the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. Dissident artist Badiucao - also known as the Chinese Banksy - launched a collection to protest China's alleged human rights abuse against Uyghurs ahead of the Winter Olympics. The Olympics will officially open on Friday and will run through to February 20. Collectors will have the chance to write a 'message of opposition to China's authoritarian regime' on the NFT blockchains to preserve them as a 'public decentralized record of protest. The NFT collection was created as part of Art in Protest program, a collaboration between the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation. In December the US announced it would be staging a 'diplomatic boycott' of the games in protest of abuses against Uyghur minorities. The US staged a diplomatic boycott in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, to protest alleged discrimination against members of the LGBTIQ+ community. The Tibetan community in Newcastle have shared their own protest online that saw them walk some 160km from Newcastle to Sydney. Over the course of five days the community 'peacefully marched' to protest the Beijing Olympics and human right abuses.