In continuation with her "Notes on China", art:i:curate contributor Kirsi Hyotyla interviews Brian Wallace, the director of the Red Gate Gallery and Residency in Beijing, China.

Rightly credited with founding the first foreign-owned contemporary art gallery in Beijing, Brian Wallace came to China from Australia in 1984. In 1991, after studying Chinese language and then art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he established Red Gate Gallery in a historic Ming Dynasty Watchtower at Dongbianmen.