Huiwen Cheung

I am a British born Hakka Chinese Visual Artist. My Inspiration comes from searching for my roots and heritage, looking at all aspects of my identity, from my ethnic group to different cultural values and faith. The book of Revelation in the Bible inspires my work and I was drawn in by the amazing visual description of the living creatures. The newer series of works are more heart felt ideas of feelings about revisiting child hood, the work came about when I stayed with my parents over the summer and it brought back many emotions that I perhaps buried. So I try and capture truth and my aim is to communicate at the highest form to the heart.

“It is this disquieting sense of detachment between the child and her parents that first disturbs the viewer, and in later pictures becomes the subject of intense psychological drama as the viewer is confronted by religious and supernatural imagery,”

Jessica Lack, Writer of the Guardian, July 2005

Area(s) of Specialization:

Visual Artist and Art Educator

Drawing, Mixed media processes, Digital Photography, darkroom processing, Photoshop, I-Movie, Printmaking and Photomedia, Chinese painting, oil painting, Art Education workshops, Contemporary Art

Education

2006 PGCE (QTS Award) Art and Design, UWIC
2004 MA Fine Art, University of Sunderland
1999 BA Printmaking and Photo-media, Norwich School of Art and Design
1996 BTEC General Art and Design, Bournemouth and Poole School of Art and
Design

Exhibition Record

2007 Journey’s East, Lauderdale House, London
2007 Inside Out (Catalogue), Trocedero, London
2006 Hakka Chinese in the UK, The First International Hakka Conference in Taiwan, Taipei
2006 Faith and Identity, Corpus Christi RC High School, Cardiff
2006 Exposition, PGCE, UWIC, Cardiff
2005 Artist in Residence, PGCE, UWIC, Cardiff
2005 Summer Exhibition (Catalogue), Florence Trust Studios, London
2005 Winter Open, Florence Trust Studios, London
2004 Open Studios, Florence Trust Studios, London
2004 Rebus (Catalogue), Thornhill Park, Sunderland
2004 I am the Way, St Ethelburga, London
2004 Can you Imagine? Nissan-Sunderland, Pure, Ashburne House, Sunderland
2000 Shaoxing-Yuexiu, Zhejiang, East China

Grants/Fellowships

2004-2005 Florence Trust Studios (Studio Award)
2003-2004 European Social Fund (Bursary for MA Fine Art)

Professional Experience

2007 Art and Design teacher (KS3/Sixth Form), Fullbrook School, Surrey
2006-2008 PAD Scheme, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2005 Artist in Residence, St Mary’s Primary, Cardiff
2004 Visiting Artist, The Brit School, Croydon

Travel/Languages spoken

Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland, Norway, Hungary, Greece, Israel, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, USA
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, GCSE: French, German, Mandarin Chinese

Email: huiweni61@hotmail.com

Website: www.myartprofile.com/huiwencheung