WESSIELING Artist's Statement

WESSIELING practice focuses on the relation among fashion, cities and identities. Her work acknowledges fashion as a major social force, interplays with consumer tastes, social habits and personal identities. The inclusion of a place, a locality plays a major role in her critical inquiry. WESSIELING? work considers how fashion represents, connects our cultural shelves and their liaison with one? locality. Interactive-ness is central to her practice. She uses installation to make theoretical intervention into a phenomenon. WESSIELING also is a Senior Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

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Biography

Brief CV 2007 Sweatshop, with Lisa Cheung, (part of Human Cargo), Plymouth City Museum and Gallery Game On: The World Fashion Conquest, Exhibition tour, MAK (Austrian National Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art), Vienna Fusionable Cheongsam, Hong Kong Arts Centre 2006 Game On: The World Fashion Conquest, EXHIBIT, London Mapping Motifs: An Exploratory Journey through Fashion, Cities and Identities, AVA Gallery, London Golden Link, Exhibit (part of London Design Festival), London One-Dollar Dress, Fashion Space Gallery (part of London Design Festival), London 2002 Integrity, Lowry Arts Centre, Manchester 1999 Sik Fan Mei? Agfa Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong 1998 Clothink, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre1997 Fashionably Chinese, Hong Kong Arts Centre 1996 Clothesques, Agfa Gallery, Agfa Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong SELECTED REVIEWS LIFE Cover and 14-page full-colour feature on Fusionable Cheongsam, Bei Bei Yin (trans & ed.), June 2007, pp. 130- 143 LIFESTYLE Cheongsam tale. A nostalgic exhibit telling the story of a Chinese symbol, Melissa Lam, June 2007, http://www.lifestyle.hk /article/arts-and-culture_4/cheongsams-tale_243.htm MING PAO WEEKLY FACES, Sin-See Hui, 23 June 2007, p. 105 MUSE Fusionable Cheongsam New Work by WESSIELING, June 2007, Issue 5, pp. 8-9 FUSED MAGAZINE Gaming the fashion week: Dare you play? Anne Pichon, 2007, issue 31, p. 65 THE CUT Review of Game On: The World Fashion Conquest, Sue Jenkyn Jones, Feb 2007, p. 5 A-N MAGAZINE Review of Game On: The World Fashion Conquest, Frances Ross, Jan 2007, http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk/reviews/reviews.php?form=details&r=170&dir=desc&pg=1 ARTPOST.INFO Review of Game On: The World Fashion Conquest, Dr Julie Thomas, Nov 2006, http://artpost.info/postscript/detail.asp?ps_id=41 TEXT THE STUDY OF TEXTILE ART AND DESIGN Review of Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities, Dr Christain Huck, December 2006, issue 2006/7, p. 61-2 THE HUB, London College of Fashion Research Newsletter Review of Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities, Dr Christain Huck, October 2006, issue 4, p. 15 ARTPOST.INFO Review of Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities, Nadja Stamselberg, May 2006, http://artpost.info/postscript/detail.asp?ps_id=36 SELVEDGE Review of Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities, Dr Pammi Sinha, issue 12, Jul/Aug 2006, p. 90 HONG KONG ART. CULTURE AND DECOLONIALIZATION Discussion on Clothink, Dr David Clarke, London: Reaktion Books, 2001, pp. 168-169 PUBLICATIONS THE MEASURE Clark, L (ed.), Review of WESIELING? artistic practice and publication of artwork, 2007 FUSAIONABLE CHEONGSAM WESSIELING, monograph in conjunction with exhibition of the same title, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2007, ISBN: 978-692-763068-5 GAME ON: THE WORLD FASHION CONQUEST Ling, W (ed.), exhibition catalogue, London: Exhibit, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-9554308-0-0 ARTPOST.INFO Publication of WESSIELING? work on Clothink, http://artpost.info/postcafe/clothink.asp CLOTHINK Wong, M (ed.) exhibition catalogue, publication of WESSIELING? work on Clothink, Xianggang: Qing Wen Shu Ju, 1998 EDUCATION PhD Cultural Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2001 BA, L?nstitut Superieur des Arts Appliques, Paris, 1993

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