BIAS – the British Indonesian Artists’ Society is a non-profit making arts organisation, based in the UK, which provides opportunities for exchange programmes  and  funding  advice  for  artists  from  the UK  and  Indonesia.


The inaugural project of this newly-formed organisation will be a touring exhibition of the work of 12 artists: six of whom live and work in Britain, and six who live and work in Indonesia.


To develop and enhance the themes of cross-cultural and trans-continental creativity, an educational project aimed at young people aged between 11-14 will run in parallel with the main exhibition. Where the exhibition presents the work of visual artists, the educational project will focus on literary creativity, specifically the short story. Six British children and six Indonesian children will be selected from schools located across their respective countries to write a short narrative on a particular theme; in the first case, the chosen theme is ‘Ghosts’. Each story will be published in one volume containing both English and Bahasa Indonesia translations. The publications will be included in the BIAS touring exhibition and circulated to schools, encouraging awareness of the unlimited capacity for imagination and inventiveness that children across the world share.