| My works are part of my exploration of being
a modern nomad. I have been through many stages on this journey
and my works reflect that mixed cultural identity and experience.
I investigate many different elements from this these mixed
cultural experiences: such as the search for cultural identity,
displacement, rootless-ness, attachment, cultural boundaries
and how they reacting with the environment. In my recent works
I find that boundaries start to dissolve, as memories of past
experience and influences merge and connect with one another
in a fragmented way but disparate and separably identifiable.
I am fascinated by the image making process of overlapping
transparent images,. Parts of the images are lost with the new
form emerging as revealing and concealing at the same time.
The process of merging and breaking the surface of the paintings
is like memories; it exists in both a fragmented and infinite
form. I am particularly interested in how our mind selects memories,
thus creating our individual internal worlds.
Newspaper, magazines and scrap notes that are created or stumbled
upon in my daily life are used as well as symbols from different
cultures also mixed in my paintings. All the elements mentioned
above are important - a new spore in creating connections between
our inner world and the outside world. |
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Education
Birkbeck College MA Arts Policy and Management Oct-01 to Sep-03
Byam Shaw School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Arts Oct-98 to May-00.
Forthcoming exhibition
Solo exhibition, Tainan Arts Centre, Taiwan - Apr 2008
Solo exhibition, Hong Kong, Pacific place 3 – Oct 2007
BAT Summer Exhibition (London) – June 2007
Women Group show (Hong Kong) – May 2007
Selected exhibitions
Bow Arts Trust Open Studios (London) – 2006,2005,2004
Sweet and Sour venue 2004, 291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road, London,
E2 8NA (London) - 2004
Summer Open Exhibition, Brent Artists Register, Willesden Green
Library Centre. (London) -2002-3
Poetry project with Sandra, exhibition at her book launch party
of ‘Star child the collection’ by Sandra, Stepping
Stone Publishing. One of the paintings from the project was
used for the cover of the book. (London) - 2003
“Urban Tension”, Brent Artists Register, Willesden
Green Library Centre. (London) - 2001
BA (Hons) Fine Arts degree show, Byam Shaw School of Art. (London)
- 2000
“In Defence of Painting”, Byam Shaw School of Art,
Concourse gallery. (London) - 2000
Third year and second year show, Byam Shaw School of Art, Concourse
gallery. (London) -1998-1999
Solo exhibition, Just Dessert Café- (Piedmont, U.S.A)-1997
“Valentine Silence Auction”, San Jose Museum. (San
Jose, U.S.A) - 1996
All College Honours Award Exhibition, CCAC campus. (CCAC-Oakland
& San Francisco, U.S.A) - 1995
Culture Mixed Exhibition, CCAC-Oakland campus. (Oakland, U.S.A)
- 1994
End of year exhibition, Suffolk College. (Ipswich, Suffolk)
- 1994
“New perspective”, Oldham Book Store. (Ipswich,
Suffolk) - 1993
“Summer of Hong Kong”, Great Exhibition Hall. (Centre,
Hong Kong) - 1991
Yearly Exhibition of Yang, Chun-Shan Arts School, Great Exhibition
Hall. (Centre, Hong Kong) - 1986-90 |
